Task 4: Academic Lesson Design, Implementation, and Reflection after Instruction

In this culminating task you will demonstrate your ability to design a lesson based on state-adopted frameworks and academic content standards for students, implement that lesson making appropriate use of class time and instructional resources, meet the differing needs of individuals within the class, manage instruction and student interaction, assess student learning, and analyze the strengths and weaknesses of the lesson. You will then demonstrate your ability to make lesson adaptations for two focus students and demonstrate your ability to analyze evidence of student learning and reflect upon instruction. Finally you will submit your completed response, a videotape of the lesson you taught, instructional artifacts, and samples of student work. The videotaping information can help you prepare, practice, and become familiar and comfortable with the process. The following TPEs are measured in this task:

• Making subject matter comprehensible to students (TPE 1)
• Assessing student learning (TPE 2, 3)
• Engaging and supporting students in learning (TPE 4, 5, 6, 7)
• Planning instruction and designing learning experiences for students (TPE 8, 9)
• Creating and maintaining effective environments for student learning (TPE 10, 11)
• Developing as a professional educator (TPE 13)

Timeline
Resources

• Videotaping Tips and Requirements
• More Videotaping Tips

Checklist - Click here for Task 4 Student Checklist

Exemplars

The following Case Documents will give you examples of teacher candidate responses. Each of the links will download a Word document to your desktop. Print out and read through the cases that pertain to your subject area and grade level.

• Multiple Subjects Preliminary Credential Candidates may select English / Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, or History / Social Science as the content area for Task 4 but must pick a subject area different than Tasks 2 and 3.
• Single Subject Preliminary Credential Candidates will work within their content area, but with a different class and a different topic than those chosen for Tasks 2 and 3.

	English / Language Arts	Mathematics	Science	History / Social Science
Score Level 1		2nd Grade
Score Level 2	6th Grade 8th Grade	1st Grade  4th Grade  6th Grade	2nd Grade  10th Grade
Score Level 3	3rd Grade 7-8th Grade	1st Grade 4th Grade
Score Level 4	Kindergarten 3rd Grade 7th Grade 11th Grade

Rubrics

Holistic Statement from the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing

Templates

Blank Task 4 Assessment Document
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