The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) proposition 3 states "teachers are responsible for managing and monitoring student learning." They know how "...to organize instruction to meet instructional goals." This article provides 14 organizational patterns for use in organizing instruction in any of the content areas. The 14 areas are: Time/Chronological, Order in Space, Cause/Effect, Problem/ Solution, Pro/Con, Simple-to-Complex, Known-to-Unknown, Topical, Compare and Contrast, Procedural; Whole-Part-Whole, Most Frequently Used to Least Frequently Used Statistics and Combining Patterns.