Standard 3: 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.
I believe that I met Knowledge Indicator 3A which states, "understands the Illinois Learning Standards (23 Ill. Adm. Code 1.Appendix D), curriculum development process, content, learning theory, assessment, and student development and knows how to incorporate this knowledge in planning differentiated instruction."
Throughout my time at Trinity, we were taught how to differentiate every lesson and how important it was to ensure the lesson would benefit and support each student in the classroom. I learned how to differentiate my lessons and the importance of it. I want to make sure my lessons are the best they can be before I teach students, and if they are differentiated, I am doing the best I can do for them. Whether these lesson plans were for real or made-up students, I have been able to practice differentiating my lessons for them. This artifact is an example of a lesson plan I made with peers, and we were able to differentiate for real students, and the lesson went great and we planned for all students.
This artifact is from a lesson on adding tenths and hundredths. I believe that it meets Performance Indicator 3J which states, "uses data to plan for differentiated instruction to allow for variations in individual learning needs."
During my student teaching, I gave this assignment to students after they performed poorly on an exit ticket and we did more practice with this skill. I was able to differentiate for them by giving them multiple choices and then letting them show me they knew how to do it on their own at the end of the assignment. Specific students also had the presentation with multiple choice for every choice because they were having a tough time with it. I learned that differentiating lessons helps more students succeed.