Using IFDs to Master Planning

When entering a unit where do you look to understand the big picture for your lessons?

• Content Essentials

• Vertical Alignment

• Bundle Overview

• Content Notes

Where can you access suggestions for in unit knowledge checks to best adapt learning for success?

• Summative Assessments

• Recommended Resources

• Formative Assessments

• Common Misconceptions

Where does the IFD provided research proven confusions that learners might experience?

• Common Misconceptions

• Process Standards

• Additional Clarifications

• Instructional Approaches

Where can you access the instructional goals that the state provides?

• Instructional Approaches

• Formative Assessments

• Content Essentials

• TEKS

Where can you find key terms and concepts to ensure your lessons use appropriate terminology?

• Guiding Questions

• Learning Targets

• Bundle Overview

• Content Essentials

Where can you find the pacing of skills to ensure learner mastery for the entire bundle?

• Learning Targets

• Recommended Learning Progression

• Process Standards

• STAAR Notes

Learners should be conducting hands on investigations. Where can you evaluate the skills these activities should include?

• Content Essentials

• Summative Assessments

• Process Standards

• Technology Applications

Where can you find suggestions for methods to introduce the learning to the student?

• Learning Targets

• Instructional Approaches

• Process Standards

• Content Essentials

Where do you find the recommended learning skills needed to show mastery of a specific topic within a bundle?

• Learning Targets

• TEKS

• Formative Assessments

• Bundle Overview

Aside from Curriculum Central, where should be your other primary stop when looking for aligned resources to plan lessons?

• Content Essintials

• Process Standards

• Summative Assessments

• Recommended Resources