Standard 3: Planning Effective Classroom-Based Instruction and Designing Assessments
Candidates will demonstrate the ability to plan one or more unit of studies that meet the curricular recommendations for the National Science Education Standards. This unit(s) should address the diverse goals of the standards and the needs and abilities of students. NSTA standards addressed in the unit(s) should include: (1a) major concepts, theories, laws, and interrelationships in field of licensure; (1b) unifying concepts, (1c) technological applications, (2c) nature of science, (3b) inquiry, (4b) issues, (6a) curricular recommendations for NSTA standards, (6b) diversity, (7b) community, and (8a) multiple assessments.
Within these unit plan(s) candidates should also design multiple assessment tools and strategies that are aligned with the methods of instruction and needs of students. The multiple assessments should be used to guide and modify instruction, the classroom environment, or the assessment process. Finally, the results of the assessments should be used as a vehicle for students to analyze and reflect on their own learning and work.
Evidence:
Electrostatics Unit Plan, Reflection, and Presentation
HOS: Gravity Lesson Plan and Reflection
ProbeWare Lesson Plan and Reflection
ESL Lesson Plan and Reflection
Habitable Planet Webquest
Reflection:
To know something in science is far more complicated than memorizing a definition or reading a page of text. It is a deep rooted understanding of the concept, how it works, how it applies, and how it fits in the scientific world view. An advanced understanding requires an advanced process of active inquiry-based learning.
Within these unit plan(s) candidates should also design multiple assessment tools and strategies that are aligned with the methods of instruction and needs of students. The multiple assessments should be used to guide and modify instruction, the classroom environment, or the assessment process. Finally, the results of the assessments should be used as a vehicle for students to analyze and reflect on their own learning and work.
Evidence:
Electrostatics Unit Plan, Reflection, and Presentation
HOS: Gravity Lesson Plan and Reflection
ProbeWare Lesson Plan and Reflection
ESL Lesson Plan and Reflection
Habitable Planet Webquest
Reflection:
To know something in science is far more complicated than memorizing a definition or reading a page of text. It is a deep rooted understanding of the concept, how it works, how it applies, and how it fits in the scientific world view. An advanced understanding requires an advanced process of active inquiry-based learning.