Chapter 4: Designing Instruction to Improve Teaching and Learning

I found the section titled "Instruction's Key Connections" extremely illuminating. They give three parts to to making instruction successful. The first part that they say an educator needs to do is play off the curriculum. They say that the importance of this is that the curriculum is based on the agreed-upon standards. I think it is also important to be firm and to stand by the curriculum even if you don't like it. If the teacher is not behind what they're teaching the students will not want to learn it. Another part is the assessments. This for me would never have fallen into the instructional aspect of teaching, but after reading why they think this I understand that after giving assessment you find out how well you instructed the classes prior to this, and to see how we must instruct them after the assessment. The last part of this section was the students themselves. If we as teachers are not sympathetic and observant to the students needs then no matter how well we plan the instruction and deliver it the students will not understand the concepts.