Standard 4
The teacher understands and uses a variety of instructional strategies to encourage students’ development of critical thinking, problem solving, and performance skills.
Reflective Statement:
As an educational leader being aware of the diverse learning styles present in the classroom is important in creating lessons. Knowing the different learning styles and how to incorporate a variety of instructional strategies is essential to teacher and student development.
These strategies must incorporate the following:
Examples:
As a teacher I will incorporate literacy in a variety of ways in all subject areas. This Literacy handbook gives tips on how to use literacy strategies to help students and make it fun. Websites for teachers and students that will help with literacy are also included in this handbook.
Children can sometimes learn best when they can able to discover ideas and concepts through self-discovery or by learning from their peers, this Science Lesson is an example.
The literacy Strategy log contains different strategies used in teaching literacy. Each strategy has a brief description on what it is and how to use it, the advantages and disadvantages of the strategy, and modifications for diverse learning styles
There are numerous instructional strategies that will help students develop critical thinking skills, this is a list of some of them with a brief description of each one.
As an educational leader being aware of the diverse learning styles present in the classroom is important in creating lessons. Knowing the different learning styles and how to incorporate a variety of instructional strategies is essential to teacher and student development.
These strategies must incorporate the following:
- The promotion of problem solving, critical thinking, and performance skills
- Implement Minnesota graduation standards and technology standards within the class work
- Use lesson plans, learning strategies, and a wide variety of materials to engage the students in active learning
- Adjust strategies according to students needs
- Use a variety of assessments
Examples:
As a teacher I will incorporate literacy in a variety of ways in all subject areas. This Literacy handbook gives tips on how to use literacy strategies to help students and make it fun. Websites for teachers and students that will help with literacy are also included in this handbook.
Children can sometimes learn best when they can able to discover ideas and concepts through self-discovery or by learning from their peers, this Science Lesson is an example.
The literacy Strategy log contains different strategies used in teaching literacy. Each strategy has a brief description on what it is and how to use it, the advantages and disadvantages of the strategy, and modifications for diverse learning styles
There are numerous instructional strategies that will help students develop critical thinking skills, this is a list of some of them with a brief description of each one.