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Areas of Impact

Professional Development
School-Wide

Age Group

High school and middle school

Length

3-4 hours

Frequency

Yearly

Type

Print Materials

Year-Long Backwards Planning Curriculum Template

academic strategies, academic habits, Collaboration & Community Skills

By making student agency a priority in long-term planning, we make it a priority for daily learning. 

Overview

This document scaffolds teachers’ long-term planning of content and skills in their classes.

Context

Teachers can use this backwards planning document to plan both skill and content learning in their classes. After planning the year’s curriculum, teachers can refer to this document throughout the year to plan daily and weekly lessons and monitor their success in students’ meeting learning goals.

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Implementation

Before using this document, teachers will need to be familiar with the state and national standards for their subject area. Required texts and textbooks should also be handy for reference. Finally, it is helpful for schools to identify the specific student agency skills that they want taught. See Gateway’s Process of Learning Student Self-Assessment for a list of these skills and a tool to assess them. This year-long curriculum plan can be modified for individual units, semesters or quarter as is suitable to your school environment.