All these links were researched by S. Porter EOU, I wanted to make them readily available for everyone.
Instructional Strategies 1
Instructional Strategies 2
Lessons
Games
I did a little research on the following:
Instructional strategies that might give some people some ideas!
Instructional Strategies A
Instructional Strategies B
Instructional Strategies C
Instructional Strategies D
Instructional Strategies E
Instructional Strategies F
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Literacy at Work With Graphic Organizers
Graphic Organizer for Ch. 9 in our ED 521 Literacy text
Graphic organizers are a great way for students to learn material and I wanted to be able to implement this strategy in my future classes. Surprised, is all I can say about how well this graphic organizer helped me to divide the chapter into smaller more specific groups. There was a better understanding given to me by being able to see the content organized in group fashion. The chapter made more sense now than it did when I first read it. I wish I would have known more about how graphic organizers worked so that I could have used them on previous chapters. I am a better visual learner and the information formed a more coherent whole. This is a great strategy for your visual learners that need learn by seeing instead of just aurally!
Graphic organizers are a great way for students to learn material and I wanted to be able to implement this strategy in my future classes. Surprised, is all I can say about how well this graphic organizer helped me to divide the chapter into smaller more specific groups. There was a better understanding given to me by being able to see the content organized in group fashion. The chapter made more sense now than it did when I first read it. I wish I would have known more about how graphic organizers worked so that I could have used them on previous chapters. I am a better visual learner and the information formed a more coherent whole. This is a great strategy for your visual learners that need learn by seeing instead of just aurally!
Saturday, March 14, 2009
A Word to the Wise!!!
Teaching a class full of Middle School students when you are sick and exhausted. Your lesson will be choppy and the kids will not get a full understanding of the content.
I experienced this recently and had to re-teach the lesson the next day. It also happened to be the day that my university supervisor dropped in to do an observation. Double whammy! Things were going well, the lesson was planned out and homework was given, but the next day we had the math class, every student was unclear on some of the aspects of graphing lines with the slope-intercept form equations.
When people are sick, you just cannot think as straight and on top of your toes as you think you are, and it will show if you are trying to teach somebody something. My university supervisor and cooperating teacher had suggested after the lesson was over, to have things efficiently planned out so that you do not have to think so much off the top of your head. My cooperating teacher recommended doing worksheets or student-led activities that were relevant to the content that we were studying as to not totally waste a day.
I learned a valuable lesson if I must come to school a little sick and out of it. If you get sick either stay home or print out some activities that are relevant to your content.
I experienced this recently and had to re-teach the lesson the next day. It also happened to be the day that my university supervisor dropped in to do an observation. Double whammy! Things were going well, the lesson was planned out and homework was given, but the next day we had the math class, every student was unclear on some of the aspects of graphing lines with the slope-intercept form equations.
When people are sick, you just cannot think as straight and on top of your toes as you think you are, and it will show if you are trying to teach somebody something. My university supervisor and cooperating teacher had suggested after the lesson was over, to have things efficiently planned out so that you do not have to think so much off the top of your head. My cooperating teacher recommended doing worksheets or student-led activities that were relevant to the content that we were studying as to not totally waste a day.
I learned a valuable lesson if I must come to school a little sick and out of it. If you get sick either stay home or print out some activities that are relevant to your content.
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Using Math Cross Curricular-Wise With Health Standards
This type of strategy can be used in any content area. I will use an example that I made up in our Health Standards classes I was involved in. I wanted to incorporate mathematics into the health standards, it was a daunting task to say the least. Teachers just have to be creative and relate the material to the students. An example I used was decision making when having a new baby.
The prompt that I wrote addressed that the student and their spouse just had baby and it is going to cost them 15000 the first year. The students have to calculate the total finances it is going to cost over the next fifteen years if each year after the first year it costs about 5149 a year. They have to graph the results and then write a short couple of paragraphs on how they will deal with this financial obligation. What if twins were born?
This really helps students learn about real-life situations and makes mathematics real. As a teacher I really learned how to listen to radio, television, and other media to make new math projects and equations for students to build off of and make the math come to them.
Dig in we are almost done!
The prompt that I wrote addressed that the student and their spouse just had baby and it is going to cost them 15000 the first year. The students have to calculate the total finances it is going to cost over the next fifteen years if each year after the first year it costs about 5149 a year. They have to graph the results and then write a short couple of paragraphs on how they will deal with this financial obligation. What if twins were born?
This really helps students learn about real-life situations and makes mathematics real. As a teacher I really learned how to listen to radio, television, and other media to make new math projects and equations for students to build off of and make the math come to them.
Dig in we are almost done!
Monday, March 9, 2009
Students show you their knowledge!
What is up?
Hope everyone is surviving!
I wanted to talk about a strategy that works well in math and can see it working in many other content areas.
I observed a teacher use individual white boards for every student to answer math equations that were written on the board. The students would do the problem on their individual board and then show the teacher and the teacher would be able to give immediate feedback on errors and praise for doing well on problems.
I like this strategy because students do problems at different times and a teacher can glance around the room and give immediate feedback and do informal assessment to where certain kids are at in the content area. If a number of students made the same error, the teacher can go back and focus on the step where students are having problems. The teacher does have to be careful to not let the students get too out of control. I plan on implementing this strategy in my future classroom, the students enjoy it and the teacher has a chance to interact with students in a less stressful environment.
Thanks for all your great comments!
Hope everyone is surviving!
I wanted to talk about a strategy that works well in math and can see it working in many other content areas.
I observed a teacher use individual white boards for every student to answer math equations that were written on the board. The students would do the problem on their individual board and then show the teacher and the teacher would be able to give immediate feedback on errors and praise for doing well on problems.
I like this strategy because students do problems at different times and a teacher can glance around the room and give immediate feedback and do informal assessment to where certain kids are at in the content area. If a number of students made the same error, the teacher can go back and focus on the step where students are having problems. The teacher does have to be careful to not let the students get too out of control. I plan on implementing this strategy in my future classroom, the students enjoy it and the teacher has a chance to interact with students in a less stressful environment.
Thanks for all your great comments!
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