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            Differentiating for and Anticipating for Student Needs. Differentiating lesson plans is a powerful tool for teachers to meet student needs. It ensures the achievement of lesson objectives and the engagement of students. As I reflect on working on this activity I realized that no two students have the same learning method, level, and ability. Research base emerges that not all children learn in the same way. In order to lead the whole class to a targeted objective, differentiation helps to engage students from who and where they are. The difference among students comes from their backgrounds and cultural links. As its result, students differ from three important ways, learning profiles, interests, and levels of readiness. Even though the history of Differentiated instruction (DI) goes back to the days where one room school used to hold all age range of students together after the education system transitioned to grading school, it was ...

          Articulating Outcomes: Thinking Like an Assessor The Standard 3.NBT.2 . Fluently add and subtract within 1000 using strategies and algorithm based on place value, properties of operation and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction (the unit is Money). The standard will require at least five lessons before the students will be prepared to take the summative test. The students will be given a formative project or exam at the end of each lesson to ensure that they understand the material that is being taught in each block of instruction. Some objective of the unit will be: • Students will be able to develop word problems involving money and will have correct answers to the questions and they will also be able to give answer to at least one question from 3 peers. • Students will be able to demonstrate understanding of the uses and importance of money. • They will be able to add and subtract money in different...

Understanding and Applying Standard In this unit of Module 5, learning and using standard to teach a unit, I have been able to identify some of the importance of unpacking standards and backward mapping as a teacher I am able to be aware of what students should be able to learn on the unit. Using backward mapping will help me as a teacher to focus on the learning goal and what students are supposed to know at the end of the lesson rather than focusing on the teaching process. I work as a teaching assistant in grade 3 in my school and at the beginning of the school year in the elementary school, teachers are provided with standard they are to teach in subjects like social studies and science, then generally the school uses the common core state standard for math and English. What I enjoy in this unit are the strategies of backwards mapping, how to unpack a standard, and write objectives. Unpacking standards While unpacking standards, I learnt how to identify and underst...

Standard and Backward Mapping Every teacher has a target while choosing from what source to teach his/her students. In my school, at the beginning of the school year, teachers are giving standards that they are expected to teach and there are emphasizes on topics and units that should be cover before the end of the school year. Backward Design Backward design as stated by education reform, is a process that is used by educators to design learning experiences and instructional techniques to achieve specific learning goal, by planning or mapping backwards. Backward design begins with the objectives of a unit or course—what students are expected to learn and be able to do—and then proceeds “backward” to create lessons that achieve those desired goals. These goals are often determined by the curriculum standards that the school observes. Using backward design, it helps teachers to create their lessons on the learning goal rather than the teaching process. With this, stude...