Instructional Planning
The teacher plans using state and local school district curricula and standards, effective strategies, resources, and data to address the differentiated needs of all students.
Sample Performance Indicators
2.1 Analyzes and uses student learning data to inform planning.
2.2 Develops plans that are clear, logical, sequential, and integrated across the curriculum (e.g., long-term goals, lesson plans, and syllabi).
2.3 Plans instruction effectively for content mastery, pacing, and transitions.
2.4 Plans for instruction to meet the needs of all students.
2.5 Aligns and connects lesson objectives to state and local school district curricula and standards, and student learning needs.
2.6 Develops appropriate course, unit, and daily plans, and is able to adapt plans when needed.
2.2 Develops plans that are clear, logical, sequential, and integrated across the curriculum (e.g., long-term goals, lesson plans, and syllabi).
2.3 Plans instruction effectively for content mastery, pacing, and transitions.
2.4 Plans for instruction to meet the needs of all students.
2.5 Aligns and connects lesson objectives to state and local school district curricula and standards, and student learning needs.
2.6 Develops appropriate course, unit, and daily plans, and is able to adapt plans when needed.
GA DOE TKES Performance Rubric
ExemplaryIn addition to meeting the requirements for Proficient...
The teacher continually seeks and uses multiple data and real world resources to plan differentiated instruction to meet the individual student needs and interests in order to promote student accountability and engagement. (Teachers rated as Exemplary continually seeks ways to serve as role models or teacher leaders.) |
ProficientProficient is the expected level of performance.
The teacher consistently plans using state and local school district curricula and standards, effective strategies, resources, and data to address the differentiated needs of all students. |
Needs DevelopmentThe teacher inconsistently uses state and local school district curricula and standards, or inconsistently uses effective strategies, resources or data in planning to meet the needs of all students.
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IneffectiveThe teacher does not plan, or plans without adequately using state and local school districgt curricula and standards, or without using effective strategies, resources, or data to meet the needs of all students.
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Brain Breaks
The above link shared by Mrs. Kennedy during pre-planning features five minute "brain breaks". Studies have
proven that the brain breaks will rejuvenate students and teachers to re-focus on work and will increase student academics. Ideally, classes would work in 1-2 brain breaks a day with this program.
proven that the brain breaks will rejuvenate students and teachers to re-focus on work and will increase student academics. Ideally, classes would work in 1-2 brain breaks a day with this program.
Literacy
Interactive tool to be used by students in post-reading and pre-writing to help them identify and summarize key elements in a story. Templates are available for a general story, biography, mystery or students can create their own. In the end, students print something they cut and tape to form a cube.
The Trading Card tool gives students an alternative way to demonstrate their literacy knowledge and skill when writing about popular culture texts or real world examples. This interactive allows students to create their own trading card about a real or fictional person, place, object, event, or abstract concept. These cards are can be used with any type of book students are reading or subjects that they are studying, and make for an excellent prewriting exercise for students who are writing narrative stories and need to consider characters, setting, and plot. Specific prompts guide student through the various types of cards, expanding students' thinking from the basic information and description of the topic to making personal connections to the subject.
Word Study Activities
Word sorting is the process of groping sounds, words, and pictures into specific categories. Teachers begin by demonstrating how to sort pictures or word cards by sound or pattern. As students sort word cards or picture cards on their own, teachers help them make discoveries and generalizations about the conventions of English orthography, or spelling. To see a number of videos on how to put this strategy in action, see the below link on Words Their Way. There are also over 20 videos that you can find if you search YouTube with the term Word Study in Action.
ReadWords provides over 1,000 non-fiction reading passages with question sets to support reading activities. Questions for each passage are aligned to essential skills and strategies. Reading passages feature vocabulary and definitions. Students read a variety of non-fiction topics to build background knowledge.
Inquiry Based Learning
An old adage states: "Tell me and I forget, show me and I remember, involve me and I understand." The last part of this statement is the essence of inquiry-based learning, says our workshop author Joe Exline. To read more click on the above button.
The above link provides tools to guide inquiry learning.
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics
The above link provides an article that shares insight into the 12 steps of planning dynamic STEM lessons.
1. Prepare the STEM lesson around a topic you will be teaching.
2. Connect that topic to a real world problem.
3. Clearly define the STEM challenge students will tackle.
4. Decide what success looks like.
5. Use the engineering design process for planning.
6. Help students identify the challenge.
7. Involve students (in teams) in researching the content for the challenge.
8. Encourage teams to develop their own ideas about how to solve the problem.
9. Guide teams to choose one idea to test and then create their prototype.
10. Facilitate the process of prototype testing and evaluation.
11. Involve teams in communicating their findings.
12. Redesign if there’s time.
1. Prepare the STEM lesson around a topic you will be teaching.
2. Connect that topic to a real world problem.
3. Clearly define the STEM challenge students will tackle.
4. Decide what success looks like.
5. Use the engineering design process for planning.
6. Help students identify the challenge.
7. Involve students (in teams) in researching the content for the challenge.
8. Encourage teams to develop their own ideas about how to solve the problem.
9. Guide teams to choose one idea to test and then create their prototype.
10. Facilitate the process of prototype testing and evaluation.
11. Involve teams in communicating their findings.
12. Redesign if there’s time.
Use DESIGN SQUAD NATION activities, animations, video profiles, and episodes in classrooms and afterschool programs, in libraries and museums, at events and at home.
For an enlarged copy of the Engineering Design Process click above.
Real World Connections
Looking for real word connections to include in your lessons? NBC Learn, the educational arm of NBC News, is dedicated to making historic stories, images and primary source documents available on-demand to teachers, students, and parents. The above button will link you directly to videos such as Writers Speak to Kids (17 part series), Science of Golf (10 part series), Science of Innovation (11 part series), Science of the Winter Olympics, Science of the Summer Olympics, Science Behind the News, Science of NHL Hockey, Science of NFL Football, Chemistry Now, Changing Planet and Finishing the Dream (Learning from the Civil Rights).
Money as You Learn - This site provides ready made tools that allows you to add personal finance into the Common Core instruction through real world examples that are appropriate for K-5. How to make money? How to save money? How to make money work for you? Learning about these questions captures students’ attention and sets them on the path to being able to make smart financial decisions. Money as You Learn starts with the Common Core Standards and Personal Finance Big Ideas (foundational understandings that lead to action). It shows where they intersect. At these intersections, it provides tasks, texts and lessons that illustrate work that students experience in a faithful implementation of the Common Core State Standards while integrating important personal finance content.