1. Task 1: Planning for Instruction and Assessment

2. 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

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

4. 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?

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

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

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

8. What Do I Need To Do?
Select a Class

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

10. 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

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

12. 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

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

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

15. 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)

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

17. 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

18. 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