What happened
Cult of Pedagogy published the first post in a planned four-part series on instructional planning. The post says it focuses on planning a full unit of instruction, with later posts to cover assessment planning, daily lesson plans, and differentiation. It presents backward design, credited to Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe’s 1991 book Understanding by Design, as the organizing approach.
Why it matters
For teachers, instructional designers, and training teams, the article’s practical distinction is useful: standards are goals, curriculum organizes and sequences them into units, and a unit is a collection of lessons. The author argues that starting with measurable objectives and a final assessment can align daily instruction with the unit’s intended outcomes.
What to do next
Teams revising a unit can use the post as a planning checklist: identify the standards or goals, write observable objectives, add a unit title and essential question if helpful, then decide what evidence would show learners met the objectives. Keep the method proportional: the author describes it as one process, not the only way to plan instruction.
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