Planning for Instruction
The teacher draws upon knowledge of content areas, cross-disciplinary skills, learners, the community and pedagogy to plan instruction that supports every student in meeting rigorous learning goals.

For the Unit of Study project it was quite challenging at the beginning. Coming into this semester as a new education major it was a whole new experience from my first year and a half of school. At the beginning of the semester it all seemed very daunting and strange because of how different it was from everything else that I have been used to. As the semester progressed it all came along and made a lot more sense. 

I tried to take as much of my past learning experiences and what I believed worked best for me and other classmates to come up with the best way to teach others. I had never really thought about the way I was being taught before and how much that affected my learning. One thing that really stuck home was the notion that it is all about the way that the student learns, not the way that the teacher teaches.

The Unit of Study is my first experience in really coming up with a teaching plan and trying to understand what may or may not work for me as a teacher. I listened to everything that everyone had to say, tried to think about what was working for me, what we were learning in class and what other online sources said. I wanted to know as much as I could in order to make something that anyone could be able to teach with no experience because I have basically none.