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