PROFESSIONAL PORTFOLIO ARTIFACT #3 Hailey Aguirre

February 27, 2021

EDUC-555-EDO1

TPE 3: Understanding and Organizing Subject Matter for Student Learning

Understanding and Organizing Subject Matter is crucial to student understanding and learning.
Understanding and organizing subject matter looks different for each different subject, but for
music courses understanding the subject matter means that the teacher knows how to sing or play
the music and knows the best way to teach the music to the students. For my third artifact I
selected a lesson plan I created for a lesson in which I explored the background of a piece we
were learning in class and continued to teach the students the correct notes and rhythms of the
piece. This lesson plan incorporates the UDL principles and is based off of the California State
Standards for music. This lessons challenges students to identify and apply teacher-provided
criteria such as correct interpretation of notation in order to rehearse, and exposes students to the
background of the piece, My Favorite Things, through multimedia. I choose this lesson for TPE
#3 because this lesson plan shows my musical understanding when it comes to the piece, My
Favorite Things through the teaching of the correct notation and an explanation of the musical
background of the piece. This lesson plan also offers an example of subject matter organization
as I laid out the state standards and learning goals and then structured the following instruction
after it. This lesson plan is a clear example of subject matter competency and organization.