Standard 4:Planning for Instruction: The teacher understands instructional planning and designs instruction based upon knowledge of the discipline, students, the community, and curriculum goals.

Date: Spring 2002
Artifact: Rational Expressions Unit
Description: During my student teaching experience, I created a nine day lesson plan that focused on manipulating rational equations. Included in the plan is an example of a student quiz and rubric.

Artifact: Functions unit using Decoder Rings
Description: This unit on functions was a colloborative project between a classmate and I where we generalyy planned they entire unit and made two very specific lessons for demonstration. My partners lesson looks at translations, while my lesson looks at the nature of functions with the aid of a java Decoder Ring assembly line program.

Date: October 21, 2001
Artifact: Demo Lesson Plan with homework
Description: During my first Curriculum and Instruction class, two other classmates and I put together a demo lesson and accompanying homework which we then presented to our class. Our lesson plan focused on the concepts of slope and the equation of a line, building their meaning from data collected in class.

Date: September 23, 2001
Artifact: Annotated Bibliography
Description: In a group, three classmates and I read 16 scholarly sources on several topics related to teaching, including technology and professional development. Included are my four sources on the topic of technology in the classroom with a brief yet detailed summary of each article.

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