1. Instructional strategies

2. Instructional Strategies
What are they?
Basic techniques used to promote learning.

3. What’s more important?
Knowledge or Thinking Skills

4. Key Instructional Skills

5. Questioning Why do teachers use questioning? Generate interest
Stimulate learning
Check for understanding
Encourage participation
Develop thinking skills
Evaluate learning

6. Questioning As a teacher you must decide
When questions are appropriate
How to ask them
How to respond to answers

7. Questioning Keep these guidelines in mind when creating questions:
Plan questions along with the lesson
Ask questions of varying difficulty
Bloom’s
What do varying difficulty questions accomplish?
Include open ended questions
What are open ended questions?

8. Questioning: Encouraging Participation
What if you ask questions and no one answers?
Wait time

9. Questioning: Responding to Students Answers
How should you respond to student’s answers to your spoken questions?

10. Using Examples What can a teacher use as an example in a class? Math?
Science?
History?
English?
Kindergarten?

11. Closure What do you think closure is?
Helps students draw conclusions about what they learned.

12. Basic Teaching Strategies

13. Two Classifications Teacher – Centered Methods
Teacher presents information to learners
Teacher directs learning process
Learner – Centered Methods
Teacher acts as a facilitator or guide for learning

14. Lecture
Most basic – teacher orally presents information and students listen
Drawbacks?
Benefits?

15. Reading
Basic way of learning a wealth of information.

16. Discussions Can be teacher centered or learned centered
Must start with a question
Why are discussions beneficial?
Why do teachers have to set ground rules?

17. Guest Speakers
Every school has different policies on guest speakers.

18. Simulations Skits, role playing, case studies, mock trial
Computer based simulations

19. Reflective Responses
Students think deeply about an issue or something they have learned.
Can be verbal or written

20. Labs Productive lab creates something
Experimental Lab uses a formal process to research a problem

21. Cooperative Learning
Everyone in a group works together to achieve a common goal.
Individual accountability is important

22. Student Presentations
Students share what they learn
Communication skills
Leads to a better understanding of material

23. Questions to discuss
Which instructional strategy that we discussed today do you think is best?