INTASC+Standard+7

**INTASC Standard 7**


 * STANDARD:** The teacher plans instruction based upon knowledge of subject matter, students, the community, and curriculum goals.


 * Specific Category of Standard 7**

INTASC.7.A K: The teacher understands learning theory, subject matter, curriculum development, and student development and knows how to use this knowledge in planning instruction to meet curriculum goals.

INTASC.7.I P: The teacher creates lessons and activities that operate at multiple levels to meet the developmental and individual needs of diverse learners and help each progress.

This standard requires teachers to plan their lessons around several different areas of importance, such as individuals, the state requirements and the local environment.
 * Understanding Sentence**


 * Artifacts**


 * TEKS Alignment--[[file:Math TEKS Alignment.docx]][[file:Science TEKS Alignment.docx]]
 * Two of Five Lessons of a Thematic Unit--[[file:SIOP.lessonplan.LA.docx]][[file:SIOP.lessonplan.History.docx]]


 * Reflect**

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The TEKS alignment and the lesson I wrote for a thematic unit are the artifact I chose to represent INTASC Standard 7, because I feel they both explicitly show I can work across a subject or theme, and use goals within them to provide a stable backbone in the lesson. The alignment in itself represents a common theme of standards across several grades, showing that I can build off prior learned knowledge and apply it to their current lesson, and also prepare them for what is to follow in the later grades. The lessons for thematic unit is similar to the TEKS alignment in that, I had to plan several lessons around one general idea and yet be able to make it concrete foe each subject area. Within each lesson I had to make sure that the English Language Learners (ELLs) were specifically taken care of, and that if they (ELLs) were behind in any way that my lessons could be manipulated in any form to still generate learning. Each artifact proves that knowing your students and their needs, which can be easily figured out by testing prior knowledge, will help to create instructional lessons that can benefit all.=====


 * Project**

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I believe that these artifacts show the importance of how to plan lessons and use proper instructions for maximum learning, based on students and their prior knowledge. The alignment showed me that if the teacher in the grade prior had not taught a specific TEK adequately, it would set me behind because I would have to teach that TEK and the TEK for my grade level. This made me realize that I must be careful to teach all the TEKS as well as possible. This may take some time to learn to do easily, but will be a learning experience well benefited from, not just by me but by the teachers that receive my students after me. Writing part of a thematic unit also proved to be a challenge that I am willing to learn more about. It’s hard to write lessons for all subjects based on one single idea; however, it can prove to be less work in the end for me as a teacher, because will not be planning several individual lessons for each subject. Both of these artifacts taught me something to watch out for in my future as a teacher.=====