Instructional Strategies

Students experienced a blast from the past the last three days by observing Instructional Strategies USD 231 produced from 2007-2009. Our Exploring Teaching course was able to take advantage of district provided teacher resources by watching instructional strategies performed by teachers.

Each instructional strategy video featured the name of the strategy, how it works/what it is used for, steps to carry out the strategy, film of the teacher using the strategy and variations/ideas for using the strategy in another subject or different way. We watched 30 instructional strategy clips, discussed the benefits and disadvantages of each and how student can implement them in their own classroom.

Students will be utilizing an instructional strategy of their choice to teach our class lesson and film their own instructional strategy video using a camcorder, IPad, or cell phone on either Friday or Monday.

Strategies we viewed:

1.      Alphabet Summary

2.      Answer or Opinion

3.      Backwards Summary

4.      Basketball

5.      Carousel Brainstorm

6.      Four corners

7.      Give Me 5

8.      Inner-Outer Circles

9.      Issues-Values Continuum

10.  Knock Out

11.  KWL Vignette

12.  Last Person Standing

13.  Line Up

14.  Luck of the Draw

15.  Make an Appointment

16.  Mix and Match

17.  One word summaries

18.  Pair Teaching

19.  Partners A and B

20.  Pyramid Show

21.  Save the Last word for me

22.  Sequence

23.  Summary Ball

24.  Take a Stand

25.  Teams Game Tournaments

26.  Think, pair, share

27.  3-2-1

28.  Ticket to Leave

29.  True False Unknown

30.  Who and What am