Instructional Strategies

Your lesson plans should combine diverse, yet comparable, instructional strategies so all children can learn. Lessons should allow for large group, small group and individual experiences. As children’s learning styles are different, the classroom should afford each student the opportunity to succeed. The following highlights two types of teaching strategies:

  1. Direct Instruction (whole group) may include –
    • key concept introduction and vocabulary
    • demonstration/reading
    • discussions
    • building charts or lists
  2. Indirect Instruction (cooperative groups) may include –
    • hands-on activities (indoors/outdoors)
    • brainstorming
    • planning
    • student-directed projects

Some other strategies include but are not limited to:

  • questioning
  • graphic organizers
  • dramatizing
  • role planning/dramatics
  • games
  • productions/projects
  • reports: oral and written
  • journaling
  • jigsaw/think-pair-share
  • visualization

 

Instructional Approaches and Strategies

Instructional Approaches   Strategies
direct instruction   questioning
expository teaching   graphic organizers
problem based   dramatizing
lab work   role playing/dramatics
small group projects   games
whole class projects   productions/project
self-directed/self-paced   reports: oral/written
peer-mediated learning   journals
whole language   creative writing
constructivism   jigsaw/think-pair-share
project-based   manipulatives
task analysis   interactive video
advance organizer   download instructive
technology driven   mnemonics
interdisciplinary integration   interviews
mastery learning   reciprocal teaching
thinking skills   visualization
learning styles   contracts
multiple intelligences    
learning centers    
differentiated instruction    
inquiry