Living in a Global Society Rubric
Living in a Global Society
Integrated Unit Assignment and Rubric/Feedback Sheet
Description: Teacher candidates will develop an instructional unit based on a realistic fiction trade book.
Additional information:
1. The selected trade book will have part or all of its setting in a country other than the United States of America.
2. The unit will display integration of language arts (English usage, writing/composition, and spelling), reading (comprehension and fluency), math, science, social studies, the arts, physical education, and student use of technology.
a. The arts, physical education, and technology will need to be integrated into only one lesson each somewhere within your unit. These do not need to be done on a daily basis.
b. Language arts, reading, math, science, social studies will need to be integrated into each day’s instructional planning.
3. Learning activities need to incorporate at least three of the five following items:
a. Culture and cultural diversity
b. Time, continuity, and change
c. Economic, scientific, and technological development
d. Individuals, groups, and institutions
e. Civic ideals and practice of the country that is the setting of the book
4. The integrated unit will cover three complete days’ instruction. Local pacing guides are not to be taken into account. The three days of instruction will be done on Plan Book Sheets. Please indicate content areas that are being integrated.
5. All appropriate standards for each integrated lesson are to be listed.
6. Template for submitting on following page.
7. One full day’s instruction will also be developed using the Blueprint Lesson Plan format. Candidates will pick any one of the three days developed on Plan Book Sheets as the day that also gets Lesson Plans.
8. Candidates will have an individual checkpoint meeting with their instructor to ensure appropriate progress is being made towards
Integrated Unit Assignment and Rubric/Feedback Sheet
Description: Teacher candidates will develop an instructional unit based on a realistic fiction trade book.
Additional information:
1. The selected trade book will have part or all of its setting in a country other than the United States of America.
2. The unit will display integration of language arts (English usage, writing/composition, and spelling), reading (comprehension and fluency), math, science, social studies, the arts, physical education, and student use of technology.
a. The arts, physical education, and technology will need to be integrated into only one lesson each somewhere within your unit. These do not need to be done on a daily basis.
b. Language arts, reading, math, science, social studies will need to be integrated into each day’s instructional planning.
3. Learning activities need to incorporate at least three of the five following items:
a. Culture and cultural diversity
b. Time, continuity, and change
c. Economic, scientific, and technological development
d. Individuals, groups, and institutions
e. Civic ideals and practice of the country that is the setting of the book
4. The integrated unit will cover three complete days’ instruction. Local pacing guides are not to be taken into account. The three days of instruction will be done on Plan Book Sheets. Please indicate content areas that are being integrated.
5. All appropriate standards for each integrated lesson are to be listed.
6. Template for submitting on following page.
7. One full day’s instruction will also be developed using the Blueprint Lesson Plan format. Candidates will pick any one of the three days developed on Plan Book Sheets as the day that also gets Lesson Plans.
8. Candidates will have an individual checkpoint meeting with their instructor to ensure appropriate progress is being made towards