Instructional Strategies
When planning lessons, a key component to structuring effective collaboration amongst students is purposeful grouping. During the planning process, teachers should ask themselves...
- Why am I asking students to work together?
- How can data be used to group students effectively?
- How can I best group students so that classroom management is conducive to learning?
- How can I best group students so that learning is maximized for all students?
- For the activity at hand, is better to use ability grouping or mixed-ability grouping?
- How will students' individual processing speeds impact the mastery of the content and classroom management?
- How will students' peer relationships impact learning and classroom management?
- How will I communicate the groupings to students?
- What is procedure will students follow to get into the appropriate group?
- What will I do if a student(s) are absent?
- What will I do if a student(s) have either lost a previous assignment or failed to complete a pre-requisite assignment?
- How will I ensure all members of the group are on-task and contributing? What will I do to address off-task behaviors?
- Do I need to rearrange the furniture prior to students coming to class?
Don't have time to reference the Instructional Strategies Index?
Use the list below as a quick reference.
54 INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES (that can be used the first time around, for re-teaching, or enrichment)
Simply put, re-teaching is asking, “How will I teach this DIFFERENTLY to the students that didn’t “get it” the first time? What should I do differently?
1. Frayer vocabulary model
2. Vocabulary Cluster
3. K-W-L Chart
4. Anticipation Guide
5. Model Thinking aloud
6. Retell / summarizing
7. Compare and contrast
8. Marzano’s Instructional Strategies
9. Think-Pair-Share
10. Metacognitive or cognitive strategies
11. CUBE
12. Role playing
13. Reciprocal teaching
14. Two-column notes
15. Mental imagery
16. Guided imagery
17. Creating analogies
18. Clustering
19. Graphic organizers
20. Outlining
21. Mnemonics
22. Comprehension strategies
23. Directed Reading-Thinking (DRTA)
(The remaining list are Re-Teach Strategies that can also be used as Scaffolding Techniques)
24. Box key words
25. Teach students to change paragraph text into bulleted lists
26. Use think-aloud paired problem solving
27. Model note-taking w/ mini-lectures after which appropriate notes are displayed overhead
28. Provide basic facts so students can do higher level thinking and not be bogged down at the knowledge and recall level
29. Provide checklists
30. Provide models
31. Provide word-banks
32. Review key vocabulary before using again
33. Teach error analysis
34. Use tape recorded directions at centers and for homework
35. Use songs, chants, and rhymes
36. Teach (explicitly) reading strategies such as accessing prior knowledge, use of context clues, fix-up strategies when comprehension is difficult
37. Vary reading strategies (shared reading, paired reading, echo reading)
38. Teach students to highlight math operational signs
39. Use visuals
40. Build in movement w/ dance and Total Physical Response
41. Chunk an assignment
42. Label steps in operations and processes
43. Label level of thinking required
44. Outline necessary steps
45. Present information using graphic organizers and teach students to use graphic organizers independently
46. Provide picture glossaries
47. Provide templates
48. Provide timelines
49. Teach students to create rebus (pictures that capture the meaning of unknown words
50. Teach text structure
51. Teach time management skills
52. Use color to call attention to important information, keywords, and directions
53. Use and have students learn to use/create mnemonics
54. Use props and realia
The following are NOT Re-Teaching Strategies...these are “contexts” to re-teach in…
Small group instruction
Whole group instruction
Stations
Intervention/Enrichment sessions
Flexible groups
Individual instruction
Re-teaching
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