Introduction: After identifying an instructional problem; conducting a needs analysis, alearner analysis, and a task analysis; developing performance objectives; anddeveloping assessments, the next...

A. Constructing Instructional Unit
Overview of the unit, including the instructional goal and appropriate audience
The instructional unit aims at identifying an instructional issue; conducting a needs
analysis, a learner analysis, and a task analysis; developing performance objectives and
developing assessments, the next step in the instructional design process is to create an
instructional unit to meet your instructional goal with respect of 7
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Grade Math class. The
audiences for the instructional unit are instructors, teachers and students.
Material list(s) for the unit
This section highlights a list of all materials required for the unit taking in reading
material, technology resources and media, community and school resources, art and other
supplies. It should include all the materials students would make use of in working on the unit. In
addition, it also includes a list of professional resources which the teacher would utilize in
developing and executing the unit. This is a material list helpful to the teacher, taking in the
Internet resources, print material in journals or books and lastly, community or school resources.
Task Analysis (goal analysis)
This section lists down the preferred learner goals for this particular unit. Unit goals
would be broader as compared to objectives one writes for the individual lesson plans. Moreover,
the unit goals need to align with the Common Core standards as well as state models (as suitable
for the content region).
Six content standards that are applicable to education take in:
 Understanding and applying techniques, media and processes
 Making use of knowledge of functions and structures
 Selecting and assessing an array of subject matter, ideas and symbols
 Reflecting upon and evaluating the features and merits of own work as well as the work
of others
Performance objectives for each task and sub tasks
Performance objectives of an instruction unit clarify what exactly the students should
know and be capable of doing as an outcome of having instruction as well as learning through
the unit's activities and content.
Seven lesson plans that include performance objectives and activities
This section includes individual every day lesson plan for the time period of the unit.
Every lesson plan includes daily objectives that are aligned with Common Core and state
standards, student activities developed to accomplish the objectives and evaluations adopted to
decide on the mastery of objectives. It is important to purposefully design lessons which
encourage greater order thinking abilities with activities which need creative or critical thinking
and/or problem solving abilities all through the unit. Several instructional strategies (like teacher
directed, demonstration, collaboration, inquiry, etc.) are insured and assessment approaches (i.e.
Performance-based quizzes, group projects, homework assignments etc.) are adopted during the
unit.
Assessment and evaluation method
Assessment is basically an approach for obtaining information which is brought to use for
forming decisions related to the students, programs and curricula and lastly, educational policy
(Gronlund, 2004). Moreover, evaluation is a concept of forming a value judgment regarding the
significance of a student's performance or product. The assessment methods include formative
assessment and summative assessment. In formative assessment the teacher checks and observes
for understanding at the time of lesson activities. In summative assessment the students are able
to effectively put across their knowledge about the content and understanding of procedures
within the lessons. Moving ahead, the evaluation methods would include self-evaluation, oral or
written feedback and observations.
B. Developing a report on instructional unit
Summary
Classroom instruction that is considered as an interactive phenomenon between students,
teacher as well as instructional resources, is undeniably essential to the educational framework
from whatever point of view (McMillan, 2007). The outcome of the educational procedure is
computable principally with respect to students' learning and behavioral...