Instructional Planning Skills - The teacher plans and prepares instruction based on knowledge of subject matter, students, the community, and curriculum goals.
Standard seven of the Idaho Core Teaching Standards deals with instructional planning skills. My artifacts for this standard are a collection of lesson plans I have created. The first is a lesson on the color wheel that I taught to elementary students. The second is a two point linear perspective lesson plan that was taught to middle school students. These artifacts are lesson plans that I created and implemented in the classroom. They were successful and I have included some examples of students work for individual lessons. The variety of my lesson plans shows that I posses knowledge of my subject matter and that I understand my students' need for different approaches to learning about art, while still reaching my curriculum goals.
I have also included some lesson plans for math including graphing practice for all grades and algebra II class. My graphing lesson has students translate their names into coordinates. They then graph the coordinates creating an asymmetrical image that they color in a pattern. These create wonderful and diverse images, and students always enjoy showing their creations off, often without realizing just how much graphing they really did. My algebra II lesson is an absolute value function lesson. In this lesson I had students learn about how to graph absolute value function while participating in a poverty simulation. This gave them a real world activity they could act out to help them problem solve and learn math. My lesson plans fit into standard seven because they show my ability to create lessons that adhere to the details of the standard as well as the needs of the students.