Summary:
Standard seven, Planning for Instruction, ensures teachers are planning instruction that encompasses the needs of all learners in the classroom. Teachers pull from pedagogical and content knowledge, specific content areas and cross-disciplinary skills to help promote their students to reach higher-level learning goals.
Importance:
InTASC standard seven, planning instruction, is important because being able to incorporate knowledge and skills into the classroom is a vital technique for effective instruction that supports learners abilities to meet different learning goals.
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Artifact #1: Madeline Hunter Lesson Plan Example
This artifact, a Madeline Hunter Lesson Plan is a demonstration of how teachers involve their own pedagogical and content knowledge into planning for success in the classroom . This is a specific type of format that is extremely popular in the education field. This is a great tool for teachers to use when planning for instruction because they are able to follow a basic format to create an organized lesson plan to incorporate every aspect including a warmup, all the way to the assessment of the learned content.
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Artifact #2: Blooms Taxonomy
This artifact, Bloom’s taxonomy, which encourages higher level thinking by building up from lower level to higher level cognitive skills. To show Bloom’s taxonomy at work, a great example is a unit lesson plan with each day increasing throughout Bloom’s taxonomy, where students are challenged to reach higher level thinking. This example helps teachers plan their instruction because they are able to challenge the students to critically think and push themselves to reach higher level thinking within that specific concept.
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Artifact #3: Cross-Disciplinary Lesson Plan
This artifact, a Cross-Disciplinary Instruction is a great way for teachers to incorporate multiple subjects together within one lesson. To demonstrate this, I incorporated a science lesson activity, that had both a science sort and a writing activity, therefore, the lesson is both incorporating science and language arts. It is important for students to be able to use their knowledge from all subjects in other ways, because that is creating a deeper understanding of the material and the development of problem-solving skills, real-world realizations/understanding, and increased engagement and positive participation within the lesson.