This course seeks to provide you with knowledge of how to holistically build unit plans in order to best serve your students and their learning goals. We will spend time discussing best practices in instruction, paying particular attention to engaging learning activities and how to meet the diverse needs based on the students you have in your classroom. This course invites you to think about the dynamic rather than static elements of curriculum. More precisely, consider the dynamics of student interaction with curriculum. We will have a particular lens of viewing curriculum through a historically responsive and culturally sustaining lens. This course will meet once a week during the fall semester, with some exceptions for flexibility around your placement school’s schedule and your work sample. Reflections on the assignments and you use in your classroom will be discussed in this course, as it will be a time to process and share ideas about what works and what doesn’t in relation to your curriculum. Another important facet of this course will be discussions, activities, and presentations related to our readings. A central piece of this course will be practicing making lesson plans and unit plans, as well as designing a work sample that reflects central elements of curriculum and instruction.