Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. My Rationale
3. Current Resume

Professional Standards

1. Content and Curriculum
   
   
2. Knowledge of Students and their Learning
   
   
3. Learning Environments
   
   
4. Assessment
   
   
5. Planning and Instruction
   
   
6. Professionalism
   
   

Planning and Instruction

"Teachers design and create instructional experiences based on their knowledge of content and curriculum, students, learning environments, and assessments."

Artifact (as evidence of meeting standard)

I found that through student teaching that planning a unit is one of the hardest tasks that I has ever undertaken. It is one that kept me up many a night pondering what I was going to teach the nest morning, especially in the case of my economics classes. I found that careful planning meant the extracting of information in such a way as to broader a product that captivated the attentions and minds of the students. This phenomena is one of the hardest processes for me as a teacher, choosing what to teach over something else. It was very hard to simply skim over the the issues, people, and places that I possess an intense love for. This is a question that we constantly attacked in our seminar class and proves to be one that I will grapple with for many years to come. Careful planning though, supplemented by reflection on what I teach for will help me to deal with this issue in the future. I am very optimistic that I will be able to master the particulars for designing an effective curriculum.