Through combining content area knowledge, curriculum, and various other pedagogical skills, the teacher will create an instructional plan that emphasizes the current learning objectives. Through these instructional plans, the teacher develops sequences of learning experiences based on evaluations of short and long term goals, working to meet every students needs and deliver appropriately effective learning experiences. I included artifacts on my usage of Blooms Taxonomy, the framework and pacing guides, and the Madeline Hunter lesson templates to demonstrate this standard.
Blooms Taxonomy
Roanoke City public schools provides a number of resources that the city provides that I was able to use during my planning to implement pedagogical strategies into my lessons. One resource in particular that was incredibly helpful was the Bloom’s taxonomy wheel that the city provides teachers. This resource helped to give prompt and key words for creating questions that hit different levels of Bloom’s taxonomy.
Framework & Pacing Guides
The second resource was the VDOE curriculum framework and pacing guides from RCPS that outlined the content and the time frame for the specifics to be learned. This guide helped me to ensure that I was on pace with my standards and that I was teaching the essential knowledge and skills as well as to provide me with a background on what the standards mean. This brief refresh was crucial in ensuring that I fully remembered and was competent on the standards before I began to teach them myself.
Madeline Hunter Lesson Plan Format
When creating lesson plans I used the Madeline Hunter template to create thorough and thoughtful plans for each day. This format highlighted important objectives such as differentiation, multiple intelligences, and taxonomy levels while creating a clearly laid out progression through activities with a focus and closure activity book-ending the daily lessons. Additionally, the Medline Hunter plan reinforces content through the structures of direct teaching, modeling, guided/independent practice, and assessment with various checks for understanding along the way, creating variances in the instruction format and creating opportunities for every learner to demonstrate their understanding and work with content in a number of forms.