1. Assessing Prior Knowledge: If you were teaching this with the targeted grade level students
   • how would prior experience have been assessed. Prior experience would have been assessed by making sure children understood what they were tought and can demonstrate proficiency.
   • What would be the implications for instructional planning and assessment based on the activities you chose to do for assessing prior knowledge. The implications for instructional planning and assessment
2. Plans Instruction: Discuss how your goals, objectives, and outcomes are
   • clearly stated
   • appropriate for students
   • aligned to state standards
3. Designing Instruction: Discuss how your instructional design
   • is contextually and logically organized
   • uses varied instructional methods that meet individual student needs and target higher order thinking skills
   • integrates technology from a constructivist perspective
4. Planning Assessment: How will your assessment tools demonstrate
   • the performance of linked goals and/or objectives
   • student engagement in higher order thinking
   • meeting individual student needs

Phase II