Task 1: Planning for
Instruction and
Assessment
What Do I Need To Think
About
 You will describe your plans for the Learning
Segment
 You will explain how your instruction is
appropriate for the students
 You will explain how your instruction is
appropriate for the content you are teaching
What to think about
 What do your students KNOW?
 What can they do?
 What are they learning to do?
What to think about
 What do you want your students to learn?
 What are the important understandings and core
concepts you want students to develop within the
learning segment?
What to think about
 Instructional strategies
 Learning tasks
 Assessments
To support
student learning
and language
use
What to think about
 How is your teaching
 Supported by research and theory
 About how students learn
What to think about
 How is the teaching you propose informed by your
Knowledge of Students?
What Do I Need To Do?
 Select a Class
What Do I Need To Do?
 Provide context information
 Essential information about your students and your
school/classroom
What Do I Need To Do?
 Identify a learning segment to plan, teach, and
analyze.
 Learning Segment – 3 – 5 consecutive lessons
 Identify a central focus
What Do I Need To Do?
 Analyze language demands – more on this later
What Do I Need To Do?
 Write a lesson plan
 For each lesson in the learning segment
 Lesson plans should be detailed enough that a
substitute could follow them
 APSU lesson plan format – found on the College Of
Education website
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Common Core Standard
Learning objectives
Informal and formal assessments
Instructional strategies and learning tasks
Instructional resources and materials
What Do I Need To Do?
 Respond to the commentary prompts
What Do I Need To Do?
 Submit your original lesson plans
What Do I Need To Do?
 Select and submit key instructional materials
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Class handouts
Assignments
Slides
Interactive whiteboard images
 Note – (no more than five pages per lesson plan)
What Do I Need To Do?
 Submit copies of all written assessments
 This should be blank assessments
 Do not submit student work samples
Back to Commentary
Prompts
 Turn to your Planning Commentary
1. Central Focus
2. Knowledge of Students to Inform Teaching
3. Supporting Students’ Literacy Learning
4. Supporting Literacy Development Through
Language
 5. Monitoring Student Learning
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How Will You Be
Assessed?
 Your evidence will be assessed with rubrics 1- 5
 Turn to the rubric 1 in your booklet
 When preparing your artifacts and commentaries,
refer to the rubrics frequently to guide your
 Thinking……..….Planning……..….Writing