The 7th InTASC standard, Planning for Instruction, requires a teacher to use knowledge of his/her students, the content, and effective pedagogy to plan instruction to meet all students’ instructional needs.
The Planning for Instruction standard is important because it holds teachers accountable for the relevance and responsiveness in their instruction.
My compliance with this standard is evident in my Comparing and Contrasting Story Elements Lesson plan. I used Bloom’s Taxonomy in this plan to ensure that my students’s understanding of story elements progressed from remembering to the higher level of analyzing.
I also used the Madeline Hunter lesson plan format by including an anticipatory set, direct teaching/ modeling, guided practice, independent practice, and closure in my lessons. Direct teaching/ modeling, guided practice, and independent practice reinforced the information. Warm-ups, or an anticipatory set, and closure allowed me to check for student understanding and sum up the information.
Additionally I was sure to incorporate multiple intelligences within my lesson plans. In day three of my problem ans solutions unit I planned for: group work to encourage interpersonal learning as well as a video read aloud to stimulate musical, visual/ spatial, and linguistic intelligences. Allowing my students to interact and show proficiency with content in a variety of ways reinforced learning.
For more information please read my Professional Practice Standard paper on Instructional Planning.