Instructional Strategies
InTASC Standard 8: The teacher understands and uses a variety of instructional strategies to encourage learners to develop deep understanding of content areas and their connections, and to build skills to apply knowledge in meaningful ways.
Introduction
As a teacher, it is important that I am using multiple formats to ensure that I am meeting the needs of all the different learning styles that are inside of my classroom. Some of these strategies include: the use of meaningful technology, anchor charts that reinforce strategies and skills that we have studied, small groups for differentiated instruction, and learning games that are leveled for their specific small group. By incorporating many different strategies, I am able to hit the different learning styles of students including: auditory, verbal, physical, visual, social and solitary learning styles. The goal of all of these strategies is to allow my students multiple methods to apply their newly learned knowledge and then deepen their understanding of the content.
Between all of these different strategies, there is devoted time for each learning style. It is especially important to include a social aspect in learning styles because as we grow, we need to understand the importance of working with others to solve issues, respect space and to be able to describe or explain a process to someone else that may not fully understand what is being discussed. This also transfers to how students' work together during literacy centers and how they are assigned within the classroom. It's important to make sure that students are grouped within similar learning ranges, so that when they are given a task, they can master the assignment. There should also be at least one student in the group who clearly understands the assignment and can help others in the group that may not grasp the concept as well. Please click through the links in the table of contents to access the subpages for each of my different types of instructional strategies.
Between all of these different strategies, there is devoted time for each learning style. It is especially important to include a social aspect in learning styles because as we grow, we need to understand the importance of working with others to solve issues, respect space and to be able to describe or explain a process to someone else that may not fully understand what is being discussed. This also transfers to how students' work together during literacy centers and how they are assigned within the classroom. It's important to make sure that students are grouped within similar learning ranges, so that when they are given a task, they can master the assignment. There should also be at least one student in the group who clearly understands the assignment and can help others in the group that may not grasp the concept as well. Please click through the links in the table of contents to access the subpages for each of my different types of instructional strategies.
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Conclusion
Within my classroom, I use many different types of instruction to make sure that I am working to meet the needs of the different types of learners within my classroom. The different types of strategies that I use allow students to get additional support when working as an entire class, in small groups and when students are working independently. Each of these strategies allows me to see what additional support students need and which strategy students are most successful in when they transition to independent work. These strategies can be used in different content areas throughout the day and skills that students can apply outside of the initial learning block of time.