What is a Dialog Unit and How Does it Form the Basis for Digital Curriculum?
A Dialog Unit specifies the scope and sequence of instruction for a selected time period. A Dialog Unit may be thought of as a container holding a series of Instructional Dialogs aligned to selected objectives.
A Unit generally includes a title, the standards to be addressed in the unit, content to be covered, recommended instructional methods, resources, and Instructional Dialogs that can be implemented as lessons or assignments.
Insofar as Units contain Dialogs, they will also contain whatever resources may be included in
the dialogs. In addition, they may contain resources directly attached to the Unit. Resources might include model lesson plans, activities, and assignments. They could also include collections of instructional resources such as multimedia recordings, links to resources available on the Internet, and links to other Dialogs.
A series of Units can form a complete curriculum for a given subject and grade or other course of study.
Units developed by the local education agency can be bulk scheduled using the Bulk Scheduler in Galileo. Bulk scheduling ensures broad and rapid dissemination of units to the
instructional staff responsible for unit implementation.
A scheduled Unit appears on the Class Calendar and also on the Teaching Dashboard. Calendar and dashboard placement ensures that the scheduled unit can be easily accessed by teachers. All that a teacher has to do to open a scheduled unit for use is to click on the unit title.
The combination of dialogs and dialog units provides a structure that can rapidly produce multiple customized digital curriculums that can be continuously modified based on assessment evidence to enhance learning.