Module 3 Program Outcome Objectives

Session 3: Plan and Prepare for Effective Instruction

The focus of session 3 is M-ARC program Outcome 1: Plan and Prepare for Effective Instruction

Outcome 1 Description: Teachers who successfully demonstrate Program Outcome 1 create and implement Unit Plans and Lesson Plans that include rich elements of the discipline and that integrate disciplinary thinking and content in complex and effective ways. The Unit Plans and Lesson Plans incorporate national and state standards, and address compelling and rigorous essential questions and big ideas. These teachers design a variety of meaningful formal and informal assessments to measure student learning throughout each unit. They proactively address possible student misconceptions and identify and address the need for learning extensions and/or re-teaching throughout their lessons. Lesson Plans connect to and build upon each other to create a cohesive pathway toward the disciplinary goals of the unit. Within the unit, individual lessons are designed around immersing students in the ways of thinking and doing in the discipline. The lessons include highly prepared, purposeful, logically sequenced learning activities that incorporate multiple resources and manipulatives and allow students to engage with content in multiple meaningful ways.

Outcome 1 includes 4 competencies, which are:

1A. Unit Planning 

2B. Lesson Planning

3C. Preparation to Teach

4D. Lesson Structure

For complete descriptions of each competency view M-ARC's program rubric Links to an external site.. 

 

By the end of this three week learning cycle, M-ARC participants will be able to:

Year 1 Cohort Objective: By the end of this online module and participation in the whole group session teachers will show beginning evidence that they have an understanding of the practices associated with planning and preparing for effective instruction The objective will be assessed via completion of a module reflective assignment and participating in both in-person and online activities.

Year 2 Cohort Objective: By the end of this online module and participation in the whole group session teachers will show developing evidence that they have an understanding the practices associated with planning and preparing for effective instruction. The objective will be assessed via completion of a module reflective assignment and participating in both in-person and online activities.

M-ARC assessment levels:

Insufficient	Beginning (Year 1)	Developing (Year 2)	Embedded (Year 3)
There is little to no evidence that the teacher is employing the practices associated with this outcome.	The teacher is beginning to show evidence of incorporating the practices associated with this outcome into his/her instruction and/or records of practice. The observed practices are employed too ineffectively or inconsistently to successfully demonstrate the target outcome.	The teacher shows evidence of regularly incorporating the practices associated with the program outcome into his/her instruction and/or records of practice. The observed practices are employed somewhat effectively; however more skillful, deliberate execution is needed to successfully demonstrate the target outcome.	There is evidence that the teacher routinely and skillfully incorporates the practices associated with this outcome into his/her instruction and/or records of practice.