Instructional Strategies

            Today we began looking at instructional strategies students can use in their classroom. We viewed videos of instructional strategies of teachers in USD231 and took notes on strategies to use in the classroom. Students got to see former middle school teachers in action and will be recording their very own instructional strategy video next week when they must teach a lesson to the class incorporating astrategy.

Next week students will be charged with designing instructional strategies according to learner characteristics and adapting strategies to reflect learners’ needs. They will be creating an instructional strategies packed to help them develop dynamic lesson plans. Students will need to include a minimum of 30 strategies in their instructional strategies packet.

We ended class today by using instructional strategies that incorporate games. We played “hot potato” as a review where when students ended holding the potato when the song ended they had to answer a question. This strategy can be used for review in many classrooms and is a fun and interactive way to go over information.