Education - Library Guide

Begin your planning by consulting the Alberta Curriculum. 

• Consider the specific knowledge, skills, or competencies you want students to learn.

List of Alberta's Curriculum

• Available from curriculum.learnalberta.ca
• Select your subject then your grade range
• Use the information online or follow the instructions to produce a PDF to save or print.

Government of Alberta's K-12 Education website: www.alberta.ca/k-12-education

Start at the CUE Library Website main search box or use the Advanced Search page for more options.

To find books about lesson planning, try these search terms:

• "curriculum planning" or "lesson planning"  or teaching will find books about those topics in general
• Add the name of a specific subject like mathematics, science, or "language arts"
• Be creative in naming your subject: try mathematics or subtraction, try science or "climate change"
• Try adding the words elementary or primary or children to remove results that apply to teaching adults
• Here is a sample search: teaching science elementary

You can place holds on books (not ebooks) and have them brought over from other NEOS libraries. 

You can also limit the results to ebooks available from CUE Library, if you prefer online resources.

ebooks - log in with your CUE email and password. Most of these require you to create a personal account in order to print, save, or download information.

• The understanding by design guide to creating high-quality units by Grant P Wiggins & Jay McTighe, 2011.
• The understanding by design guide to advanced concepts in creating and reviewing units by Grant P Wiggins & Jay McTighe, 2012.
• Essential questions: opening doors to student understanding by Grant P Wiggins & Jay McTighe, 2013.
• Integrating differentiated instruction & understanding by design: connecting content and kids by Carol A Tomlinson & Jay McTighe, 2006.
• Design and deliver: planning and teaching using universal design for learning by Loui Lord Nelson
• Your UDL lesson planner : the step-by-step guide for teaching all learners by Patti Ralabate
• The new teacher's companion : practical wisdom for succeeding in the classroom by Gini Cunningham - especially Chapter 7 Lesson Plans & Unit Plans

Books - available from CUE Library, located in the Curriculum Collection on the main floor.

• LB 1027.4 P73 2019 Planning effective instruction: diversity responsive methods and management by Kay M Price, Karna L Nelson 2019. 
• LB 2806.15 W545 2011 The understanding by design guide to creating high-quality units by Grant P Wiggins & Jay McTighe, 2011.

Videos - log in with your CUE email and password.

• Understanding by design by Grant P Wiggins & Jay McTighe, 2000.

Websites

• Introduction: What is UbD Framework? 
• How to Make Your Questions Essential - Grant Wiggins and Denise Wilbur, Educational Leadership, 72(1) 2015.
• A List of Over 100 Awesome Essential Questions Examples by Subject - Lee Watanabe-Crockett, 2017.
• Exemplary Unit and Lesson Plans for K-12 Educators - Intel
• Designing Learning - Galileo Education Network
• Inquiry-based Learning Implementation
• Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Guidelines 
• NCRTEC Lesson Planning Template
• Read Write Think - International Literacy Association & National Council of Teachers of English
• Visible Learning - John Hattie's research on factors that influence student achievement. Click on one of the domains, like Teaching Strategies, to see a list of factors.