COMPETENCY 3
Designing Instruction Based on Goals
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS)
TEKS is the state of Texas curriculum guidelines for all grade levels and subject areas.
TEKS Do Contain: Basic knowledge (not higher level thinking skills) and prerequisite knowledge necessary for attaining higher level thinking skills.
TEKS Do NOT Include: activities, resources and assessments
Benjamin Bloom
Benjamin Bloom works centered on the theory of mastery learning, classification of educational objectives and early childhood education. He devised a hierarchy of thinking skills from lower levels, or basic skills, to higher levels that include more creative, problem- solving ability and critical thinking for students.
Bloom's Three Domains for Objectives
Cognitive
Thinking, memory and reasoning
Affective
Attitides and feelings
Psychomotor
Physical ability
unit plans
Lesson Plans
There are usually many lesson plans involved in a unit, and each lesson should fit into the goals of the unit of which it is a part.
Unit plans should include: title, the overview , instructional outcomes, conceptual map, timetable, the approach ,activities, bibliography, material and evaluation techniques
Lesson Cycle
one of the many types of classroom instruction and includes the following parts:· Objectives/goals/TEKS, focus and introduction (get students attention, connection to prior knowledge, materials, teacher modeling/direct instruction, guided practice, independent practice, assessment/Evaluation, enrichment/Extension activities and closure