SPECIAL INFO: USE 3RD GRADE, USE MATH, UNSURE ON WHAT LEARNING OBJECTIVE, AND NEED 2 PAGES SUBDOMAIN 602.1 - INSTRUCTIONAL PLANNING & DESIGN Competency 602.1.1: Curriculum Alignment - The graduate understands the importance of aligning curriculum, teaching resources, materials, and strategies to accepted academic, district and state standards, goals, and priorities as part of a curriculum evaluation and selection process to achieve instructional purposes. Objective 602.1.1-03: Evaluate the appropriateness and relevance of curriculum materials and instructional resources and media. Objective 602.1.1-04: Evaluate the appropriateness and effectiveness of infusing computerized materials into specific teaching/learning resources. Objective 602.1.1-08: Describe the selection of appropriate culturally and linguistically sensitive materials for use in learning process. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Task: Identify the following components for a lesson you might want to teach: (1) intended grade level for instruction; (2) subject area; and (3) learning objective(s). (These components will be included in the essay in B.) A. Choose at least three instructional resources appropriate to your chosen grade level and subject area to use while teaching your chosen objectives. (At least one resource must be computer-based.) 1. For each resource, complete the attached Instructional Materials Evaluation Checklist, evaluating the resource against the checklist criteria. For future reference, add notes to justify your position on each resource. Note: For each resource, provide a complete citation for easy location and describe the resource in a brief paragraph at the top of the checklist. B. After completing the evaluation checklists, write an essay (suggested length of 1–2 pages) in which you: 1. Identify the lesson components you chose (i.e., grade level, subject area, learning objective). 2. Explain why you chose each resource you evaluated in A1. (Be sure to identify each resource you chose.) 3. Explain why each area in the evaluation checklist is important pedagogically. Use several of the specific criteria in each area as examples to show how each area is important pedagogically. 4. Explain why it is important to choose culturally appropriate and linguistically sensitive materials. 5. Explain why you would or would not decide to use each resource in the lesson. C. If you use sources, include all in-text citations and references in APA format.

SPECIAL INFO: USE 3RD GRADE, USE MATH, UNSURE ON WHAT LEARNING OBJECTIVE, AND NEED 2 PAGES SUBDOMAIN 602.1 - INSTRUCTIONAL PLANNING & DESIGN Competency 602.1.1: Curriculum Alignment - The graduate understands the importance of aligning curriculum, teaching resources, materials, and strategies to accepted academic, district and state standards, goals, and priorities as part of a curriculum evaluation and selection process to achieve instructional purposes. Objective 602.1.1-03: Evaluate the appropriateness and relevance of curriculum materials and instructional resources and media. Objective 602.1.1-04: Evaluate the appropriateness and effectiveness of infusing computerized materials into specific teaching/learning resources. Objective 602.1.1-08: Describe the selection of appropriate culturally and linguistically sensitive materials for use in learning process. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Task: Identify the following components for a lesson you might want to teach: (1) intended grade level for instruction; (2) subject area; and (3) learning objective(s). (These components will be included in the essay in B.) A. Choose at least three instructional resources appropriate to your chosen grade level and subject area to use while teaching your chosen objectives. (At least one resource must be computer-based.) 1. For each resource, complete the attached Instructional Materials Evaluation Checklist, evaluating the resource against the checklist criteria. For future reference, add notes to justify your position on each resource. Note: For each resource, provide a complete citation for easy location and describe the resource in a brief paragraph at the top of the checklist. B. After completing the evaluation checklists, write an essay (suggested length of 1–2 pages) in which you: 1. Identify the lesson components you chose (i.e., grade level, subject area, learning objective). 2. Explain why you chose each resource you evaluated in A1. (Be sure to identify each resource you chose.) 3. Explain why each area in the evaluation checklist is important pedagogically. Use several of the specific criteria in each area as examples to show how each area is important pedagogically. 4. Explain why it is important to choose culturally appropriate and linguistically sensitive materials. 5. Explain why you would or would not decide to use each resource in the lesson. C. If you use sources, include all in-text citations and references in APA format.