CSTP IV - Planning Instruction and Designing Learning Experiences for All Students

This section should show evidence that you:

• Plan instruction that draws on and values students' backgrounds, prior knowledge, and interests;
• Establish challenging learning goals for all students based on student experience, language, development, and home and school expectations;
• Sequence curriculum and design long-term and short-range plans that incorporate subject matter knowledge, reflect grade-level curriculum expectations, and include a repertoire of instructional strategies;
• Use instructional activities that promote learning goals and connect with student experiences and interests; and
• Modify and adjust instructional plans according to student engagement and achievement.

Ed460: Multicultural checklist; multicultural practicum; lesson plans.

Ed462: Lesson plans.

Ed464: Lesson plans.

Ed466: Lesson plans.

Ed472: LAS chart with sources, including student-developed inventories for multiple intelligences, learning modalities; DI and GI lesson plans, including pre-planning section, adaptations, and reflective analysis based on field experience teaching lessons.

Ed474: Sections of the completed TPA-3.

Ed476: Learning About Students form; unit plan overview; instructional strategies assignment; content-specific standards based GI unit; content-specific standards PowerPoint lesson; content-driven standards-based cross-curricular unit.

SpEd457: Individual disability strategy matches; enhanced lesson.

   Other examples of the types of evidence that might be appropriate for this section:

Lesson plan content areas: references to meeting the needs of student IEP goals; a written anticipatory set involving student background and experience; instructional planning involving differentiated instruction to meet the needs students with special needs; lesson plans involving cross-curricular integration; indications of strategies for ELL GATE, and/or Special Ed students); long-term and/or short-term lesson plans with lesson adjustments and/or modified assignments noted for special populations; lesson plans which include sensitivities of cultural, gender, and/or socio-economic differences.

Reflection possibilities: reflections of challenges and successful moments with students; reflections of modifications desired or made.

Other ideas: interdisciplinary plans and/or team meeting minutes; team teaching notes; 504 plans; IEP plans; indications of including Special Education standards in teaching.