How to plan a unit of work using student input:

• Ask students to read outlines and list major points to be covered.
• Students write a mind map - showing how these ideas are linked; below this raise either more areas of interest or questions you would like answered during the process.
• Form a general week by week plan of how to cover these ideas in the unit.
• Skim read the text book. Does it cover all the areas needed. What else is needed? Who will do this?
• Plan a week at a time of activities that they agree on.
• Agree on a way of determining if people understand the key ideas.
• Do the same with skills.
• All students to write up their learning plan for the week.