Setting Instructional Outcomes (TESS 2c) + Content Pedagogy

(AMLE Standard 4, Element a)

Perhaps the most important aspect of

teaching is setting the goals that you wish
for your students to achieve. As a teacher I
do this by creating a rubric anytime I have
my students do an assignment where they
write concerning a topic that they have
learned about through a lesson. The
outline to the left did several things for my
students. The scores were outlined and
associated with different aspects of the
lesson that I outlined. As I ended the
lesson for the day, I made sure that they
understood different aspects of what they
were being asked in the assignment. I went over the definitions of a topic, thesis, and how they
would convince me that their research topic is important. By doing this I was ensuring that the
work that I was assigning them was adequate instructional outcomes.

Of all the AMLE Standards, I believe that my performance in this category fulfills the 4th
Standard of the AMLE Standards, specifically Element a of the AMLE standards which states
“Middle level teacher candidates use their knowledge of instruction and assessment strategies
that are especially effective in the subjects they teach.” Through the administering of past writing
assignments, I have learned that the students are able to more effectively accomplish the task at
hand and express themselves completely if they have an assignment that lays out a basic
blueprint of what is necessary in the assignment without giving them restrictions on how those
goals are met.