Wisconsin Educator Standards: 7) Planning

Standard #7:  The teacher plans instruction based upon knowledge of subject matter, students, the community, and curriculum goals.


I will be considerate of many things while planning instruction including- student interests, community resources, and colleague opinions and plans.  I will create learning experiences that are appropriate to curriculum goals, relevant to learners, and based on principles of effective instruction.

Artifact four is a unite plan I wrote and taught for a 6th grade social studies class.  The unit was based on the textbook World: Adventures in Time and Pace, "Chapter 16: European Expansion."  I focused on individual inquiry with a small research project at the beginning of the unit and on guided note taking throughout the unit.  

This unit plan is a long-term plan for a social studies class I taught.  I began planning the unit by comparing state standards and the unit test Mr. Heglund created.  After knowing what the students would need to accomplish by the end of the unit, I proceeded to plan how to help my students reach these goals.  

Artifact twelve is a writing lesson plan.  For this lesson students wrote a generalization (a skill they had been working on in reading) about a specific person they knew and then gave to detail to elaborate on the generalization.  To encourage self-reflection, students were then asked to grade themselves.

This is a lesson I taught to a 6th grade English and reading class.  This is a demonstration of how I plan lessons daily and my ability to connect to students' prior learning.