The Designing Instruction task assesses the candidate’s ability to identify the links between students’ characteristics and their learning needs, and to:

• plan instruction for an actual class of K-12 students, including developing and adapting instruction for English learners and for students with other instructional challenges
• reflect on the connections between student characteristics and instructional planning

 This task is completed with actual K-12 students.

To submit this task, it is recommended:

1.        You successfully complete the Subject Specific Pedagogy (SSP) task.

2.        You successfully complete one of the following sequences:

·         Sequence 1 (Student Teachers: Multiple Subject):

o   TED 635 Methods: Social Science, History, Health, PE, and Arts

o   TED 636 Methods: Mathematics and Science

·         Sequence 2 (Student Teachers: Single Subject)

o   TED 632 Content Area Curriculum

o   TED 633  Content Area Instruction and Assessment

·         Sequence 3 (Internship):

o   TED 631A  Internship Seminar I

In each of the (sequence) courses, there are assignments requiring you to work in a K-12 classrooms with:

a.    English Learners (Beginning to Intermediate CELDT)

b.    Students who present an Instructional Challenge.

Teacher candidates will complete the DI task while working in the K-12 classrooms and provide written responses to the task’s prompts based on the planning of instruction for those K-12 students.

Submit written response to the task prompts based on the plannnig of instruction for these K-12 students. 

TPEs Addressed Within This Task:

TPE 1: Making subject matter comprehensible to students

TPEs 4, 6, 7: Engaging and supporting students in learning

TPEs 8, 9: Planning instruction and designing learning experiences for students

TPE 13: Developing as a professional educator