Unit Of Work Set For Year 1 Maths

The key to effective teaching is good planning and organisation (Touzel 2009). Although, teachers should not be too prescriptive in their planning, teachers should be equipped with sufficient subject knowledge to allow for spontaneity in a lesson, being able to answer potentially challenging questions that might deviate the lesson (Petty 2009). In order to support this, a clear unit of work should be provided so detailed lesson plans can be produced. A unit of work is a basic overview of a set of lessons that includes what the students are expected to learn. The individual lesson plans can then go into detail about how each lesson will run and should include clear objectives, outcomes, differentiation needs and a clear structure (Haynes 2010). This essay will look at a unit of work set for Year 1 maths and will involve the teaching of

Volume and capacity are introduced to the children in the first year of Key Stage 1, at School A, the white rose framework was used to plan these lessons. Children are expected to learn the difference between volume and capacity and use the correct language to describe the amount of liquid/sand/rice there is in a given container. Children are also expected to compare volumes of different containers and describe which has less and which has more. Much of the planning for this unit was based upon two previous units of work, one on height and length, the other on mass and weight. Having supported one and planned the other, I was able to make informed decisions about planning, owing to each unit being similar as far as teaching method were concerned. Furthermore, I was able to form a basis for differentiation based upon assessment data from the previous two units, I made the assumption that children who struggled with the previous units would also struggle with the current