Des Moines Area Community College

INTASC Standards
Artifact Reflection Form

Teaching Standard/Competency/Outcome Addressed:

InTASC Standard #8 Instructional Strategies: The teacher understands and uses a variety of
instructional strategies to encourage learners to develop deep understanding of content areas and
their connections, and to build skills to apply knowledge in meaningful ways.

InTASC Standard #10 Leadership and Collaboration: The teacher seeks appropriate leadership
roles and opportunities to take responsibility for student learning, to collaborate with learners,
families, colleagues, other school professionals, and community members to ensure learner growth,
and to advance the profession.

Course Competency #5: Develop an appreciation for pedagogy as it relates to classroom

management and instruction.

Essential Learning Outcome #3: Communication Skills: Students will be able to communicate
clearly and effectively within the appropriate context.

Essential Learning Outcome #5: Collaboration: Students will be able to apply the skills and
attitudes necessary for effective teamwork, including interpersonal communication, project
management, and leadership.

Course: EDU 210: Foundations of Education

Date of Implementation: 2021-12-08

Artifact
Title of Artifact: Madeline Hunter Lesson Plan
The benefit of completing this artifact was to prepare better for being an educator. Through
completing a lesson plan, I was able to see what a day-to-day task may be like while planning.
Luckily, from working in a group to complete this project, I was able to bounce ideas off of others
and we could all pitch in ideas as well. This was great practice for someday collaborating with
other teachers for tying curriculum together. The artifact completed the InTASC Standard #8
Instructional Strategies, InTASC Standard #10 Leadership and Collaboration, Course Competency
#5, Essential Learning Outcome #3: Communication Skills, and Essential Learning Outcome #5:
Collaboration.
Reflection:
I thought that the way this artifact was presented helped complete a lot of teaching standards.
Considering lesson planning is very important, I was glad to hear that we would learn about it and
practice making one for this class. I was also able to find more resources about more standards in
education and how to apply those into a curriculum. For the artifact my group did, we created a
lesson plan for second grade art. It was fun finding an activity that could turn into learning and
meet some of the standards for second grade art. Overall, this artifact provided me with the much
needed opportunity to practice making a lesson plan.