Evan Parent - InTASC Standard 7

STANDARD 7: Planning for Instruction

The teacher plans instruction that supports every student in meeting rigorous learning goals by

drawing upon knowledge of content areas, curriculum, cross-disciplinary skills, and pedagogy,

as well as knowledge of learners and the community context.

The teacher should make broad plans for the class they are instructing, and specific

plans day to day. These include what kinds of improvements they want to see in the ensemble

and specific students, what kind of music they want to play, and what goals they want to set for

the ensemble, such as a certain score at a competition. This also includes specifically what

music they want to rehearse each day, what concepts they intend to teach and how they intend

to teach them, as well as how they want to use the class time overall, whether that be with full

ensemble rehearsing, sectionals, or other activities such as warmups or technique activities.

I have a long way to go with this. I am not great at large scale planning, but I can run an

effective rehearsal or teach an effective lesson when provided with the content beforehand. As I

work with ensembles more I intend to make notes of spots in the music and overall technique

that needs improvement, as well as planning and preparing methods on how to teach this

content and these sections in different ways so that students may understand.

My artifact for this standard will be my music education classes. These will teach me the

best practices for teaching different kinds of lessons and how to effectively prepare lesson plans

and execute them well.

Council of Chief State School Offices. (2011, April). Interstate Teacher Assessment and Support

Consortium (InTASC) Model Core Teaching Standards: A Resource for State Dialogue.

Washington, DC: Author.