assignment A

Designing Lesson Plans: Common Core State Standards

This assignment assesses your ability to develop accommodations or modifications for lesson plans in alignment with selected CCSS. This assessment also supports your achievement of Course Learning Outcome 1, and MASE Program Learning Outcomes 3 and 5.

All educators regularly collect information pertaining to student performance during lessons or instructional activities as a method of monitoring student progress. This type of assessment, while informal, provides excellent information related to the content standards such as the Common Core and the pacing of the lessons.

Instructions: Using support from your assigned reading, the Instructor Guidance, and the discussions, submit the following for evaluation. Use the below guidelines for creating your written assignment. If you have questions about the assignment or the rubric, please contact your Instructor using the “Ask Your Instructor” discussion before the due date.

Content Expectations:

· Lesson Plan (4 points): Using one of the Example Lesson Plans in the Week One Required Resources list as a starting point, revise the lesson plan, using the lesson plan template, to include accommodations and/or modifications that align to two or more CCSS.

· Justification (4 points): Write a one page justification of your revisions, fully addressing the reasons why the accommodations and/or modifications you designed are effective for students with mild to moderate disabilities.

Written Expectations:

· Syntax and Mechanics (1 point): Exhibit meticulous use of grammar, spelling, and organization throughout your submission.

· Organization (.5 points): Use the lesson plan template provided.

· Source Requirement (1 point): Reference at least three scholarly sources, which may include your course textbook, in order to provide credible evidence to support your ideas.

· The Scholarly, Peer Reviewed, and Other Credible Sources table  offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source for a particular assignment.

· Additional Page Requirement (.5 points): Your submission must include a separate title and reference page.

· APA format (1 point): All in-text citations, page formatting, and references must be written in APA 6th edition format.

Next Steps: Review and Submit the Assignment Review your assignment with the Grading Rubric to ensure you have achieved the distinguished levels of performance for each criterion. Next, submit your document no later than Day 7. In addition to submitting your assignment to Waypoint this week, you will also submit your document to the Doc Sharing tool for use in Week 4 Discussion: What Makes an Effective Lesson Plan? Peer Review and Structured Feedback. To access the Doc Sharing tool, select "Modules" in your left navigation menu. In the "Tools" module, you will find the Doc Sharing page.

Recommendation: The MASE program provides the opportunity for you to create an online portfolio that can be used in your career development and professional practice. Throughout the program you will have various assessments that can be included in this e-portfolio and these will be finalized in the Capstone course of the MASE program, ESE699. You may select this assignment and subsequent coursework to include as artifacts. Therefore, it is strongly encouraged you save your coursework on a flash-drive (e.g., a USB removable drive) or store in a cloud-based option such as Dropbox, Google Drive, or other similar applications.

Success Tip: Be mindful of the Week Six Final Assignment. The Week Six assignment involves creating a lesson plan portfolio and is a culminating assignment for this course. Preparation for this assignment must begin early to make certain you are planning ahead and saving your work. Review the full instructions for the Week Six assignment for specific information.

Carefully review the Grading Rubric (Links to an external site.) for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.