Unit planning is very important. It is something all teachers continue to do throughout their career as a teacher.

To me, unit plans are a great place for teachers to demonstrate their professionalism. To demonstrate their thinking, teachers should treat unit plans as dynamic accounts of their teaching, rather than static records of their intentions. Treating unit plans as dynamic accounts enables teachers to explain what they have done (for others or for the future), justify their plans and decisions, analyse the impact of their actions (for student learning), and evaluate their teaching.

I hope this post helps teachers to develop their unit plans as dynamic accounts and reflect on the purposes of planning and teaching.