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Insasc Standard 7 Analysis

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This is my overview and response to InTASC standard 7 titled “Planning for Instruction.” I will discuss my thoughts on the first read through, then I will go in depth on several of the InTASC standard 7 points with examples. On my first reading of the standard, I immediately thought about my department meetings, how they relate to the “cross-disciplinary skills”, and the inherent problems of departments that do not share common topics. My department, Career Technical Education (CTE), is a multidisciplinary program which aligns students with different career pathways. For example, Building and Construction, Broadcast and Digital Media, Hotel Operations, Culinary, and my subject STEM and Web Design. In our department meetings, we are consistently asked by our administrative staff, Principals and Vice-Principals, do collect common data. While this is easy to do in a Math or Physical Science line of courses, creating common threads of data collection in CTE is arduous because of our different subjects. In spite of the CTE program difficulty during department meetings, we found common ground in InTASC standard 7(h). …show more content…

Examples of Soft skills are those that focus on public speaking ability, self-directed problem solving, and professional interpersonal communication skills. The CTE department has added the soft skills component of public speaking to all of our classes so we can collect data and modify our curriculums when needed. However, there are students in our classes that are unable to meet even basic requirements of standardized and modified curriculum. For example, CLD learners, or those that have an IEP, 504 accommodations, or

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