This document summarizes a presentation about the importance of long-range planning for teaching. It discusses creating short-term goals for students to achieve within a month and long-term goals to achieve within a year. It also discusses aligning lessons with standards and considering individual student needs when planning curriculum over a semester or year. The presentation provides tips for developing a planning system and mapping out themes, lessons, media, and artists to address standards and asks teachers to reflect on how they are meeting requirements.

1. The Importance of Long-Range
Planning
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Sarah Cress
Art Ed 4273

2. MoStep Madness Agenda…
• Curriculum Share
• Xtranormal Videos
• Sketchbook Prompt
• Sketchbook Discussion
• MoStep Four, Can I Have a
Volunteer?
• The Relevance of Short-Term
and Long-Term Planning and
How to do it RIGHT
• Break
• Making Sense of it All
• Artifact Brainstorm
• Artistic Release

3. Sketchbook Prompt…
List your personal
short-term goals
for this month. List
your personal long-
term goals for this
year.

4. MoStep Four…
• 1.2.4 The preservice teacher recognizes the importance of long-range
planning and curriculum development and develops, implements, and
evaluates curriculum based upon student, district, and state performance
standards.
• Performance Indicators: The preservice teacher
– 1.2.4.1 selects and creates learning experiences that are appropriate
for curriculum goals, relevant to learners, and based upon principles
of effective instruction (e.g., encourages exploration and problem
solving, building new skills from those previously acquired);
– 1.2.4.2 creates lessons and activities that recognize individual needs
of diverse learners and variations in learning styles and performance;
– 1.2.4.3 evaluates plans relative to long and short-term goals and
adjusts them to meet student needs and to enhance learning.

5. MoStep Four Rubric…
The pre-service teacher is aware of state and district
knowledge and performance standards and
considers those, as well as student needs, when
planning lessons. Instructional planning and
implementation consider individual student
learning styles and are constructed to build
student skills in developmentally appropriate
ways. During implementation, the pre-service
teacher demonstrates exemplary flexibility by
evaluating and changing long-&short-term goals
and/or instruction to meet student needs.

6. The Importance of Looking at the Big Picture…
• Makes learning meaningful
for students
• Allows for deeper knowledge
acquisition
• Challenges teachers to look
beyond their scope and
sequence
• Prepares students more
adequately for the broader
world

7. Short-Term Goals…
• Short-term
goals are ones
students will
achieve in the
near future
(e.g., in a day,
within a week,
or possibly
within a few
months)

8. Short-Term Goals…
• What are some
examples?

9. Long-Term Goals…
• Long-term goals are ones students will achieve over a
longer period of time (e.g., one semester, one year,
five years, or twenty years).

10. Long-Term Goals…
• What are some examples?

11. The Consideration of Standards…
The Top-Down Approach:
• The National Standards
• The Show-Me Standards
• Common CORE
• Missouri DOKs
• Missouri GLEs
• Your Local District
Standards
• Your School Standards

12. Making Sense of the Mess…
Cress’ Approach to Standard-Based
Planning:
• Devise a planning system that
works for you
• Consider a larger period of time
(e.g. a semester or a full year)
• Map out the themes you would
like to focus on within that period
of time
• Map out the lessons you would
like to focus on within those
particular themes

13. Making Sense of the Mess…
• Map out the media exploration
you would like to focus on within
those particular lessons
• Map out the resources and
historical and contemporary artists
you would like to utilize within
each of those lessons
• Take a close look at each
individual lesson and consider
which standards, GLEs and DOKs
they address
• Ask, “Am I doing my part?”

14. Let’s Look at a Concrete Example…
While watching the following video jot down
your notions regarding the following:
• What learning occurred before this?
• What learning will occur after this?
• What are the short-term goals?
• What are the long-term goals?

15. Let’s Look at a Concrete Example…

16. Let’s Practice…
In pairs, devise a lesson plan both of you would
consider implementing during student teaching. It can
involve any assortment of media and technique and
can be geared towards an age group of your choosing.
• Summarize the lesson
• Summarize your short-term goals
• Summarize your long-term goals
• List the National Standards you will address

17. Artifact Brainstorm…
Now, let’s
brainstorm
some ways
we can
demonstrate
our newfound
knowledge.