Pillar 1: The Learner and Instructional Design

What to Learn About and Practice to do Well on Pillar 1: The Learner and Instructional Design

In Pillar 1 you will be constructing a very comprehensive and detailed lesson plan.  You will use a specific template document linked below based on your licensure program.  Below are resources that will help you understand how to create powerful learning experiences for your students and the various components of those templates.

• Overview of Pillar 1: The Learner and Instructional Design

  • Overview information on Pillar 1:  Video   |    Slides   |   Document

• Planning and Designing Instruction Using Templates for Pillar 1

  • • Create and Teach Lesson Plans Using the Appropriate Template (Much like training wheels these templates are used by FHSU programs to help students learn how to design great lessons.  Pick the template appropriate to your program and use it frequently to plan engaging and powerful learning opportunities for your students)

      • Transition to Teaching Lesson Plan Template (copy and use this for your planning).  T2T Template

      • Teacher Education Lesson Plan Template (Undergraduate student teachers use this for your planning) TE Template

      • Special Education Lesson Plan Template (SPED teachers use this for your planning.  SPED Template

• Understanding and Applying Knowledge of Your Teaching Context (Demographics, Learners, and the  Learning Environment)

  • • Understanding and Connecting with the Context of Your Community, School and Classroom:   Video | Slides | Documents

    • Reporting Classroom and School Demographics:  Video  |  Slides  | Documents 

    • Getting to Know Your Students:  Video | Slides | Documents

    • Cultivating Relationships with Families: Video | Slides | Documents

    • How Students Learn:   Video | Slides | Documents

    • Focus Students / Differentiation - Differences in Students and the Differentiated Instruction They Require:   Video | Slides | Documents

• Creating Powerful Instructional Learning Goals

  • • Starting with State or National Standards:   Video  | Slides | Documents | Link to Collection of Standards

    • Writing Specific & Measurable Objectives for Learning:  Video | Slides | Documents

    • Backwards Design / Understanding by Design:  Video  | Slides | Documents

•  Prioritizing and Building Your Assessment Plan

  • • Overview of Building a High Quality Assessment Plan:   Video  |  Slides  | Documents 

    • Addressing Prerequisite Knowledge and Misconceptions:   Video  |  Slides  | Documents 

    • Informal and Formal Assessment Strategies:   Video  |  Slides  | Documents 

    • Constructing Pre/Post Assessments to Assess Student Learning:  Video on Pre-assessments (7:56) | Video on Post Assessments (6:17) | Slides on Pre-assessments | Slides on Post Assessments | Documents

    • Using Formative Assessment Strategies to Inform and Support Student Learning:  Video (5:29) | Slides | Documents

    • Building and Using Rubrics for Assessment: Video 1,  Video 2   | Slides | Documents

    • Differentiating Assessments for Focus Students:  Video (10:39) | Slides | Documents

    • Using Technology in Your Assessment:  Video | Slides | Documents

    • Analyzing Pre Post Assessment Data to Reveal Student Learning:  Video  | Slides | Documents

• Utilizing Powerful, Evidence-based Learning Strategies

  • • Opening the Lesson / Engaging the Students:  Video  |  Slides  | Documents 

    • Using Evidence-based Learning Strategies:  Video  |  Slides  | Documents 

    • Attaining Powerful Closure to Your Lesson:  Video  |  Slides  | Documents 

• Differentiation in Teaching, Learning, and Assessment

  • • Planning Instruction Using Strategies for the Whole Class :  Video | Slides | Documents

    • Planning Differentiated Instruction Using Strategies for Focus Students: Video  | Slides | Documents

• Examples of Important Learning Strategies

  • • Theories of learning - how students learn: Video  | Documents

    • Project-based Learning/Assessment  w Student Products or Performances: Video | Slides | Documents

    • Authentic and Applied Learning:   Video | Slides | Documents

    • Integrating Technology in Support of Student Learning:  Video | Slides | Documents

    • Questioning Strategies in Support of Student Learning:  Video (7:57) | Slides | Documents