Standard 8: Instructional Strategies
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 access and appropriately apply information.
Rationale: As a teacher, I believe it is important to use a wide range of instructional strategies while also challenging and encouraging learners to reach their full potential. Students should be provided with the opportunities to develop deep understanding of content and apply knowledge in meaningful ways.
In my Behavior and Classroom management class, we created a google docs file with over 200 classroom strategies. The types of strategies range from bonding and connecting activities to ways that keep my students actively engaged in their learning. I have used multiple strategies from this source to create a learning environment that is diverse and addresses the abilities of each of my students. This strategies file has already proven to be a very useful tool and will continue to aid my future lessons and classroom.
In my 5th grade placement for student teaching, my co-op implemented stations into her daily lessons. For every social studies or science lesson, there were three different stations for students to rotate through. I implemented this same instructional strategy when planning my lessons for her classroom. This proved to be very beneficial because students could essentially be exposed to three different types of learning within the same lesson. For example, one of the days out of my pilgrim unit, students read a book about pilgrims with me at one station, watched a video about pilgrim life in a second station, and created a doll similar to what pilgrim children would have had in a third station. Throughout these stations, students were also able to work in small groups or in partners and I was able to give more individual attention to students because of the smaller group numbers.
Rationale: As a teacher, I believe it is important to use a wide range of instructional strategies while also challenging and encouraging learners to reach their full potential. Students should be provided with the opportunities to develop deep understanding of content and apply knowledge in meaningful ways.
In my Behavior and Classroom management class, we created a google docs file with over 200 classroom strategies. The types of strategies range from bonding and connecting activities to ways that keep my students actively engaged in their learning. I have used multiple strategies from this source to create a learning environment that is diverse and addresses the abilities of each of my students. This strategies file has already proven to be a very useful tool and will continue to aid my future lessons and classroom.
In my 5th grade placement for student teaching, my co-op implemented stations into her daily lessons. For every social studies or science lesson, there were three different stations for students to rotate through. I implemented this same instructional strategy when planning my lessons for her classroom. This proved to be very beneficial because students could essentially be exposed to three different types of learning within the same lesson. For example, one of the days out of my pilgrim unit, students read a book about pilgrims with me at one station, watched a video about pilgrim life in a second station, and created a doll similar to what pilgrim children would have had in a third station. Throughout these stations, students were also able to work in small groups or in partners and I was able to give more individual attention to students because of the smaller group numbers.
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