Capstone Instructional Unit

About

The Capstone Instructional Unit is a performance-based assessment tool for teacher candidates to demonstrate ability to plan, deliver, and assess a standards-based instructional sequence, analyze student learning, and reflect on teacher candidate’s instruction and student learning to improve teaching practice.

Through this process, a teacher candidate can further develop their skills to prepare themselves for a successful first year of teaching. While a teacher candidate may not replicate each section of the Capstone Unit when designing every unit their first year of teaching, the Capstone Unit is a research-based model to follow to assist teachers develop sound instructional experiences.