In this task, you will demonstrate your ability to learn important details about a classroom of students, an English learner, and a student who presents a different instructional challenge. You will plan instruction that is shaped by and addresses those student characteristics, and you will demonstrate your ability to connect learning about students to instructional planning. You will submit your completed response to your teacher preparation program.
The Designing Instruction task requires you to make appropriate connections between what you know about the students in your class to instructional planning for those students. You will focus on how your instructional plan connects to the student characteristics of your whole class and to two focus students, an English learner and a student who presents a different instructional challenge.
The following general information applies to the Designing Instruction task for all candidates. Directions for completing the task as applicable to multiple subject candidates and to single subject candidates are provided separately following the general information. (CTC, 2008, p. 4-2)
CTC (2008). CalTPA Candidate Handbook. California Commision on Teacher Credentialing. Retrived from: http://www.ctc.ca.gov/educator-prep/TPA-files/CandidateHandbook.pdf.