Standard 3 : Planning for Differentiated Instruction 

Standard 3 - Planning for Differentiated Instruction – The competent teacher plans and designs instruction based on content area knowledge, diverse student characteristics, student performance data, curriculum goals, and the community context. The teacher plans for ongoing student growth and achievement. 

Artifact description: This is a lesson plan that I created using the Trinity format for a math lesson on Quaters and Math Boxes following the math curriculum that the school district uses. 

connection to ITPS standard: This artifact is connected to 3C) understands cultural, linguistic, cognitive, physical, social, and emotional differences, and considers the needs of each student when planning instruction. I used this lesson plan to adjust future lesson plans that I created since I was able to see what worked for students and what did not work.

 Description of what was learned: The students learn all about quarters such as how much they are worth, what they look like, and how to spot them from the front/ back. The students also learned about Math Boxes since they are in the math workbook after each chapter. This lesson taught me how energetic the students can be about math time during the school day. They also helped me understand how important it was to have a PowerPoint and not just teach from that but also come up with more problems than needed.