Task 1: Planning for Instruction and Assessment

What Do I Need To Think About You will describe your plans for the Learning Segment You will explain how your instruction is appropriate for the students You will explain how your instruction is appropriate for the content you are teaching

What to think about What do your students KNOW? What can they do? What are they learning to do?

What to think about What do you want your students to learn? What are the important understandings and core concepts you want students to develop within the learning segment?

What to think about Instructional strategies Learning tasks Assessments To support student learning and language use

What to think about How is your teaching Supported by research and theory About how students learn

What to think about How is the teaching you propose informed by your Knowledge of Students?

What Do I Need To Do? Select a Class

What Do I Need To Do? Provide context information Essential information about your students and your school/classroom

What Do I Need To Do? Identify a learning segment to plan, teach, and analyze. Learning Segment – 3 – 5 consecutive lessons Identify a central focus

What Do I Need To Do? Analyze language demands – more on this later

What Do I Need To Do? Write a lesson plan For each lesson in the learning segment Lesson plans should be detailed enough that a substitute could follow them APSU lesson plan format – found on the College Of Education website Common Core Standard Learning objectives Informal and formal assessments Instructional strategies and learning tasks Instructional resources and materials

What Do I Need To Do? Respond to the commentary prompts

What Do I Need To Do? Submit your original lesson plans

What Do I Need To Do? Select and submit key instructional materials Class handouts Assignments Slides Interactive whiteboard images Note – (no more than five pages per lesson plan)

What Do I Need To Do? Submit copies of all written assessments This should be blank assessments Do not submit student work samples

Back to Commentary Prompts Turn to your Planning Commentary 1. Central Focus 2. Knowledge of Students to Inform Teaching 3. Supporting Students’ Literacy Learning 4. Supporting Literacy Development Through Language 5. Monitoring Student Learning

How Will You Be Assessed? Your evidence will be assessed with rubrics 1- 5 Turn to the rubric 1 in your booklet When preparing your artifacts and commentaries, refer to the rubrics frequently to guide your Thinking……..….Planning……..….Writing