Johanna Busch
Instructional Strategies
inTASC Standard 8: The teacher understands and uses a variety of instructional strategies to encourage learners to develop deep understanding of content areas and their connections, and to build skills to apply knowledge in meaningful ways.
Introduction
In this section, I explore the different instructional strategies that I use to help my students build skills, develop deep understandings of content and make connections between content, themselves, and the real world. I use a variety of different instructional strategies that are tailored to the needs of my young students. My instructional strategies must include a lot of structure and clear directions to allow my students to succeed. I also am sure to use instructional strategies that are engaging to my young students and give them the opportunity to wrestle with challenging content. I meet every child's needs using a variety of instructional strategies.
Instructional strategies I use include technology integration, activity-based learning, graphic organizers, and whole brain teaching. Click on the pages below to learn more about how I use these strategies in my second grade classroom.
Conclusion
This section explored the ways that I use various instructional strategies to increase student mastery. I implement these instructional strategies based on the backwards planning I have done to figure out what skills students need to learn to succeed at specific task by the end of the year, unit, and lesson. Diagnostic, formative, and summative assessments further inform the implementation of instructional strategies. These strategies are adjusted to meet the needs of all of my students. I increase student achievement through the daily use of rigorous, engaging, and student-centered strategies that give my students opportunities to build skills, apply their knowledge, and develop a deep understanding of content.