Week 3 – Assignment
Designing Lesson Plans: Evidence-Based Strategies
This assignment assesses your ability to develop lesson plans that incorporate evidence-based strategies for teaching students with mild to moderate disabilities with goals aligned to the current performance level of students with an identified area of need. This assessment also supports your achievement of Course Learning Outcome 3 and MASE Program Learning Outcome 5.

Instructions: Using support from your assigned reading, the Instructor Guidance, and the discussions, submit the following for evaluation. Use the below guidelines for creating your written assignment. If you have questions about the assignment or the rubric, please contact your instructor using the “Ask Your Instructor” discussion before the due date.

· Lesson Plan (3 points): Using the lesson plan from Weeks One and Two Assignments as a model format, develop a lesson plan that incorporates evidence-based strategies for teaching Bianca self-determination skills with goals aligned to her current performance level and identified areas of need.

· Rational (3 points): Write a one page rationale for the lesson plan explaining why you chose the specific strategies for Bianca in this lesson plan over other possible choices.

Written Expectations:

· Syntax and Mechanics (1 point): Exhibit meticulous use of grammar, spelling, and organization, throughout your submission.

· Organization (.5 points): Use the lesson plan template provided.

· Source Requirement (1 point): Reference at least five scholarly sources, which may include your course textbook in order to provide credible evidence to support your ideas.

· The Scholarly, Peer Reviewed, and Other Credible Sources HYPERLINK “https://ashford.instructure.com/courses/75031/files/14042583/download?wrap=1” o “Preview the document” table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source for a particular assignment.

· Additional Page Requirement (.5 points): Your submission must include a separate title and reference page.

· APA format (1 point): All in text citations, page format and references must be written in APA 6th edition format.

Next Steps: Review and Submit the Assignment Review your assignment with the Grading Rubric to ensure you have achieved the distinguished levels of performance for each criterion. Next, submit your document no later than Day 7. In addition to submitting your assignment to Waypoint this week, you will also submit your document to the Doc Sharing tool for use in Week 5 Discussion: Planning for All: Differentiating Instruction. To access the Doc Sharing tool, select “Modules” in your left navigation menu. In the “Tools” module, you will find the Doc Sharing page.

Recommendation: The MASE program provides the opportunity for you to create an online portfolio that can be used in your career development and professional practice. Throughout the program you will have various assessments that can be included in this e-portfolio and these will be finalized in the Capstone course of the MASE program, ESE699. You may select this assignment and subsequent coursework to include as artifacts. Therefore, it is strongly encouraged you save your coursework on a flash-drive (e.g., a USB removable drive) or store in a cloud-based option such as Dropbox, Google Drive, or other similar applications.

Success Tip: Be mindful of the Week Six Final Assignment. The Week Six assignment involves creating a lesson plan portfolio and is a culminating assignment for this course. Preparation for this assignment must begin early to make certain you are planning ahead and saving your work. Review the full instructions for the Week Six assignment for specific information.

Carefully review the Grading Rubric (Links to an external site.) for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.