My Senior Year

Planning. One of the most important things a teacher needs to be able to do. You can not design instruction or teach a lesson unless you have planned well for it. Not planning well for a lesson would be like showing up to a test and realizing that you forgot to study an entire unit or chapter. When you don’t study, the teacher knows and your grade will reflect it. When you don’t plan well enough, your students will know and their grades will reflect it. The Milner book definitely placed a high emphasis on all of the different stages and types of planning; this is a clear testament to the importance of planning in regards to designing instruction.

Another important thing that I know about designing instruction is that the students have to learn something from the lesson. The Milner book mentions the Backward Design Process which I have heard about but never used. I will have to use Backward Design for my Teacher Work Sample (TWS) this semester and I am excited to see how it works. I find it to be a very idea to go from what you expect your results to be and then work backwards.