AST

Specific
Goals

Spiritual
Preparation

Practical
Preparation

Expected
Obstacles

How I Will
Overcome

TPE 3.3

I should pray
for clarity and
ask the Lord
to make
connections
between
disciplines
clear for me
and easy to
execute. I can
mentally
prepare myself
by asking
more
experienced
teachers to
share their
experiences
about
planning and
implementing
instruction. I
can also ask
them for
accountability.

I plan
instruction as
a whole unit
with the big
picture in
mind. Once I
have a larger
essential
understanding
and
determined for
the students I
can work
backwards to
incorporate as
many subjects,
including the
arts, as
possible.

I expect to
struggle with
finding crossdisciplinary
connections
between
different
standards.

I will overcome
these obstacles
by being
resourceful with
lesson planning
websites, and
getting ideas
from
colleagues.
I will become
familiar with
the stateadopted grade
level standards
so that I can
more easily
make
connections.

Plan, design,
implement, and
monitor
instruction
consistent with
current subjectspecific
pedagogy in the
content area(s)
of instruction,
and design and
implement
disciplinary and
crossdisciplinary
learning
sequences,
including
integrating the
visual and
performing arts
as applicable to
the discipline

TPE 2.6

AST

I will pray that

the Lord will
Establish and
maintain clear provide me
expectations for with guidance
on how to
positive
mange the
classroom
children and
behavior and
for student- to- communicate
with parents. I
student and
can feel
student-topositive about
teacher
interactions by my own
communicating classroom
management
classroom
by asking for
routines,
procedures, and input from
parents and
norms to
students and
students and
feedback from
families.
experienced
teachers on.

I will create a
classroom
management
plan that is
inclusive of
clearly written
rules,
procedures,
and behavior
consequences.
These
expectations
will then be
communicated
to students
and parents at
the beginning
of the year.
The
management
plan will be
able to be
accessed on
the classroom
website
throughout the
academic year.
This platform
will also
provide a
place for
parents to
message me,
and can be a
place where I
remind
students of
upcoming
assignments if
necessary.

I expect to
forget
something in
my classroom
management
plan, or
possibly even
have planned a
procedure for
something that
may need to be
changed or
altered during
the school year
if it becomes
ineffective or
obsolete.

I can introduce
the classroom
management
plan with a
disclaimer,
saying the
things are
subject to
change. If
changes are
made I will be
sure to clearly
communicate
this decision to
the students and
parents and
explain that the
change was
made in the
hope to benefit
the educational
experience.

TPE 1.5

AST

Promote
students'
critical and
creative
thinking and
analysis
through
activities that
provide
opportunities
for inquiry,
problem
solving,
responding to
and framing
meaningful
questions, and
reflection.

This TPE
requires the
incorporation
of social
activities in
the classroom.
Therefore I
will pray for
patience with
possible
misbehaved or
off-task
students and
will pray for
trust in
students
abilities to
turn
socializing
into an
opportunity to
learn and
grow.

I will
intentionally
plan inquirybased and
cooperative
lesson plans
for all subject
matter that
this it is
appropriate.
Every lesson
will include
questions that
challenge the
students to not
just recall
information
but also will
ask them to
think critically
about the
content.

I was educated
in mostly
direct
instructiondriven
classrooms, so
I anticipate that
my educational
experience will
impact my
confidence
with teaching
inquiry and
cooperative
lessons. I will
need to learn to
hand some
responsibility
of instruction
and learning
over to
students. I will
also need to
strengthen
management of
students
behavior
during
discussions and
group work
while ensuring
participation of
the whole
class.

I will ask for

feedback from
experienced
teachers for my
inquiry and
cooperative
lesson and will
journal about
how the social
aspects of each
lesson goes so
that i have time
to
professionally
reflect and
assess the
effectiveness of
instructional
strategies.