This document provides guidelines for creating charts to plan classroom instruction. It recommends: 1) Consulting educational standards to determine required subjects and skills to address. 2) Organizing subjects into units and determining time for each, creating a chart with quarters, standards, instruction specifics, and evaluation methods. 3) Letting the chart sit for a few days and getting feedback from other teachers before finalizing and distributing to students and parents.

1. Guidelines in Making Charts
MMSU-CTE, BSED-3A

2. Instructions
• Consult the educational standards or
goals. Your district should have a list of
the required subjects and skills that you
need to address in your class.
For example, if you are teaching English,
the list includes such things as sentence
structure and verse poetry.

3. • Organize the various subjects into units,
and determine how much time you have
to spend on each subject. An elementary
English course may include a unit on
sentence structure. In this unit, you may
spend two weeks on parts of speech.

4. • Create a chart with "Quarter" on the left, the
educational standard of goal in the middle and
a heading for the specifics of instruction on
the right, followed by methods of evaluation.
An example would look like the chart below:
Quarter Writing Environment
Grammar/Mechanics Usage Evaluation
1st Quarter Expressive Parts of speech Weekly
quiz
August 25- Parts of the sentence
October 23

5. • After creating the chart, let it sit
for a few days. Then go back and
review it to ensure that it covers
every required subject and skill.
Show your chart to other
teachers in your subject matter.
More experienced educators may
suggest some changes.

6. • Print your chart. On the
first day of class give a copy
to your student and send
another copy home to their
parents.

7. Tips & Warnings
• Review several standardized tests for
you to tailor your instruction to
them, but do not base your entire
teaching methodology solely on the
tests.
• Carefully proofread your chart before
printing out a copy for your students
and their parents,