Standard 7: Instructional Strategies
The teacher uses various instructional strategies to ensure that all learners develop a deep understanding of content areas and their connections, and build skills to apply and extend knowledge in meaningful ways.
- A teacher needs to apply a variety of instructional strategies and provide opportunities to engage students in classroom in order to develop students' higher order thinking skill and ability to solve real-world problems.
Goal:
*Total Participation Techniques:
- I will apply various instructional strategies but focus on Total Participation Techniques (TPT)* to my daily lesson. In a language learning class, to have every student to engaged is extremely significant to success. I will use different material, such as computer games, small white board, poster papers, recycle papers, and more, to assist me practicing TPT in class.
*Total Participation Techniques:
- Unrehearsed interactive puzzle solving speaking task
- Think-pair-share
- Quick-writes
- Quick-draws
- Whiteboard splash
- Thumbs-up when ready
- Processing cards
- Ranking
- Numbered heads together
- Thumb up/down vote
- Small whiteboard hold ups
- Line-up (Speed dating)
- Three 3's in a row
- Categorizing and sorting
- Mouth it, use body part to do air- write, show me using your fingers
- Cut-and-pastes
- Read-aloud
- Graphic organizers
- picture notes
- T-chart
- What is missing on the desk
Goal reflection:
- It would be great to create a classroom with fun and learning at the same time. I personally love all strategies in TPT books and would like to practice them all in my class. It sounds fun to have students do the same thing in different and fun way. I believe students learn the best if they feel they come to school to "have fun."
Evidence:
Evidence reflection:
- I love hoe these strategies turn out good. Students engaged if the lesson is designed fun and educational. I don't need to be the one who always stand in front of class and do boring instruction. I practice "I do, we do, you do" a lot in my class and students love I lecture my lesson this way as they can come out and do it themselves instead of just watching teacher do it. In DLI target languages classroom, you can always hear students talking instead of teaching talk all the time. To encourage students to talk, vivid activity and various teaching material is needed. For example, we always have a formal test on every Friday and I always do a short review with students before the test. In stead of just ask students to write down or read vocabulary, I sometimes use poster paper and have students to write them on it in group and then do a web game; or sometimes I have students to write each character on cards and have them play "heart attack" game. In these ways, students are still ding writing and reading but in a fun way which students are more likely to do.