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A BIG List of Instructional Strategies for Teachers

I've decided to create an instructional strategies list for teachers. There are plenty of teaching textbooks meant to provide instructional strategies for teachers. There are also huge lists of definitions available. This site strives to be more. I am updating this page regularly to keep it a constantly growing resource for teachers, homeschooling parents, student teachers, and anyone else with an interest in teaching children. (Doing this helps me to keep my own teaching skills sharp.) It can be hard keeping up with the latest trends in teaching. (Full disclosure... I will sometimes include links to recommended items for teaching this generation of learners. If you decide to buy one of those items through my link, I could make a small commission.) For example, if you teach science at just about any level, your students would probably LOVE having this item in your classroom.
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The list below is a curated collection of links to resources, informative videos, and basic pedagogical definitions that I've spent weeks (so far) putting together. Much of what you find here can be put to use in your classroom immediately. All I ask is that you please share it with other educators (use the social buttons above or link to this page if you have a teaching website or page of your own). The comments section at the bottom is the perfect place to share your own tips and expertise with other teachers around the world! Thanks, and please share!

The Big List

3-2-1 This is an activating strategy similar to a KWL chart. Students give three things they believe they already know about a subject, two things they would like to learn more about, and finally, one question that is related to the overall concept you will be learning about. Get more details and a free generic printable version here.

ABC Summarize This game is used as a tool during brainstorming sessions. Given a main topic, students try to come up with related words representing all 26 letters of the alphabet.

Ability Grouping This type of grouping is also sometimes referred to as tracking. Students working at similar levels are grouped together for instruction. Some, but not all, experts use this term interchangeably with tracking. Although there has been research done on the effectiveness of ability grouping, there is still quite a bit of disagreement about whether or not it helps or hurts student achievement. You may want to read this synthesis of the research.

Academic Games Games designed to encourage and support a variety of academic skills. These can be used in the classroom, but are also sometimes organized into larger competitions between schools. See the most popular academic games on Amazon.

Accredited Online Teacher Certification Programs Courses of study that allow an individual to earn teacher certification through online classes. Different programs of study will have different requirements and will offer different certifications and/or degrees upon completion.

Achievement Motivation Humans respond to different types of motivation. Achievement motivation focuses on our desire to reach new levels of achievement or goals. This has implications for educators looking for ways to inspire less than enthusiastic students. Read more about theories of motivation.

Activating Strategies The aim of these types of teaching methods is to get students using their prior knowledge as they take on new learning tasks. These approaches engage students and help them to anchor the new things they are learning to what they already know. Many of these will be mentioned in this list of pedagogical strategies. Some examples include KWL charts, think-pair-write, cloze activities, and quick writes. I found a large list of these on Slideshare.

Active Learning A method of teaching that involves more than just "book learning". Students actively engage in problem solving, writing, or other activities. This approach encourages evaluation, synthesis and analysis instead of just searching a book for the "right" answer.

Active Participation Get the students involved in their learning. Ask them questions. Give them small projects. Have them do surveys, talk to each other and share. Start a real class discussion. If you have shy kids, let them write down some comments to initiate discussion. Create puzzles. Stop talking and discuss what was just taught for a few minutes. Brainstorm ideas about the topic of the day... Not many people learn well when they are just sitting there listening to a lecture. Seriously, how many details do you remember from your last three in-service meetings? Sometimes one of the best teaching techniques is to let the students take the lead and then adapt you teaching methods and strategies to fit the moment. Read more about how to get students involved in class.

Activity Centers Get some of these set up. I always thought they would be a major hassle when my school started moving toward a differentiated approach to learning, but once these are set up, the students quickly catch on to the concept of moving from station to station. If you have a co-teacher or aide available, these are even easier to manage. You may want to check out these Common Core based activity centers.

ADHD Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder It is estimated that over five million children in the United States have been diagnosed with ADHD. Symptoms include impulsivity, being inattentive, and hyperactivity. These can show up in various combinations. Learn more at healthline.com

Advance Organizers These are "frameworks" for learning. Actually, they just give the class a heads up as to what they'll be learning that day. You basically introduce the topic and tie it to prior lessons and knowledge. I always write the day's objective on the board and refer to it within the first few minutes of class. It also gives learners something to aim for during the lesson. That is, they know what they should be learning in the next 40 minutes or so. (See anticipatory set below.)

Advantages vs. Disadvantages A simple class exercise where two columns are used to compare the advantages and disadvantages of a given topic.

Agreement Circles This a tool used for helping students as they develop critical evaluation skills. It is a simple activity that starts out by providing a statement and asking students whether or not they agree with it. After that...

ALEM (Adaptive Learning Environments Model)

Anticipatory Set This is done at the beginning of class. You hook your students' interest, focus their attention, and get them engaged in the lesson. This could be a lot of things. Some people like to start with "bell ringers" or questions related to the previous lesson. It could also be something as simple as taking a minute to choose a homework question the would feel comfortable answering. If you'd like a refresher about how to apply these in your lesson plans, check this site. Here are some more ideas you can try right away:

Engage the whole group with a great question

Let the students do some freewriting which they will then share in class.

Project an interesting visual related to the lesson with an overhead or projector.

Write a question on the board and have students write a short answer.

Role play

Do a quick review of what was taught the previous day.

Brainstorming activities related to the day's lesson.

Author's Chair This activity is used as part of learning the writing process. A student shares his written work with the class. Obviously, this should be done toward the end of the writing process after the author has already cleaned up his or her rough draft. Feedback should be primarily positive, but constructive criticism is a good thing here. I've found that the other students often ask questions that can help the author to recognize details they might have left out of their work up to that point. You can find some great video demonstrations of author's chair . They'll probably make you smile too.

Balanced Literacy This approach to language arts learning emphasizes mastering both oral and written methods of communicating. Student learning occurs both in and out of the classroom and involves writing, reading, viewing, speaking, and listening. It is a model that integrates writing and reading for students and it involves both direct and indirect teaching methods. A variety of instructional methods for teaching reading comprehension, phonics, and writing skills may be applied. Learn more...

Behavior Management Like it or not, keeping things under control in your classroom is part of the job. Don't worry though. We've got some behavior management tips for you.

Benchmark Testing This type of testing is done to determine where a student is starting out and how much progress has been made over a designated period of time. This is a method of monitoring student progress. To maintain consistency, standardized benchmark tests are often used. The time between tests may vary, but every three to six weeks is usually considered acceptable. The goal of benchmark test taking is to see how much academic progress is being made as the school year goes along. Many textbook series today include benchmark tests. Read more about benchmark testing here.

Best Teaching Practices There are so many ways to approach teaching. Finding the best way to engage students and actually get them to learn takes some practice. Here are some thoughts on what really gets through to students.

Book Talks I suppose you might think of these as the modern, more in-depth equivalent of the traditional book report. It is a way to encourage students to get more involved with reading. Students make a book recommendation to their peers in an organized way that includes a bit of personal reflection on what they enjoyed about the book. These fit well when introducing a book fair or even a newly acquired classroom book. Check out some elementary book talk videos.

Brainstorming Most teachers have probably experienced brainstorming first hand. Students are given a topic to focus on and then are encouraged to use their creativity as well as prior knowledge to create a list of ideas that can then be used as a starting point for new learning. Brainstorming should be done in an environment that encourages open sharing and discourages judging and criticism. Get some more tips on facilitating brainstorming in the classroom.

Case Studies This instructional strategy gives students the task of examining real life scenarios and applying the knowledge they have acquired in class. It encourages abstract thinking, so it is best suited to students who have reached that level of cognitive development. This is generally after elementary school age, but you can adapt this to your elementary classroom if the students seem to have a solid understanding and interest in the topic being discussed. Check out examples of case studies in science to get some ideas for your own classroom.

Categorizing Students can start putting their thoughts (and physical objects) into categories as early as the beginning of elementary school. Teachers can facilitate this process by first suggesting appropriate categories to get the ball rolling. This is a good way to encourage students to examine how things a alike and different. This obviously can lead later to compare and contrast exercises. For older students, apps like flipagram can be used in class as a categorizing tool. Here is a link to a webinar describing just how to do that.

Causal Mapping This is a form of concept mapping. The emphasis is on cause and effect relationships. Intel has developed something called the Seeing Reason Tool that you should check out for creating causal maps.

Cause and Effect Exploring what happened (the effect) and why it happened (the cause) in various situations.

Checking for Understanding The strategies involved here can range from very simple (thumbs up or down) to much more complex (group activities that can involve sharing in an organized manner). I usually go for the fastest method that is appropriate. One thing I have definitely learned though, is that you can't expect most kids to voluntarily raise their hands and announce that they need a deeper explanation. If you don't check for understanding, you risk having a classroom of lost and disinterested learners as you continue teaching. This usually ends badly with frustrated students and low test scores. The time spent checking for understanding pays off later because even if students do get "lost", you don't have to backtrack nearly as far to get everyone back up to speed. Formative assessments are a great way to do a quick check for understanding. Here is a list of 53 ways to check for understanding.

Choral Reading Generally, in choral reading, the teacher reads a selection aloud to the class. At that point, a whole class discussion is held about what was read. From here, the whole class, or a selected group of students reads the selection aloud. Students who are less confident in their reading ability are able to join in with more fluent readers. Any kind of text can be read in this manner. It can be a great way to introduce poetry.

Choral Response At first glance you might think that having students shout out their responses would lead to class disruption, but in choral response, students are expected to answer in a controlled way (not with wild screaming). The theory here is that getting students to respond frequently during a lesson will keep them more involved and lead to more students actually remembering and understanding what has been taught.

Chunking This is the process of grouping or organizing bits of information into groups that are easier to remember together. Students learn to organize and to look for patterns. Chunking is a great way to work around the short term memory's limitations. This isn't just useful for students. Take a look at this post on Lifehacker.com.

CIRC (Cooperative Integrated Reading & Composition)

Circles of Knowledge An activating strategy similar to a KWL chart, but using circles. Students write down what they already know, what they want answered, and finally, the answers to their questions. This is easily made into a worksheet simply by drawing 3 circles and labeling each as above. If you would like a closer look, or a printable sheet, check this page from NASA.

Class Publications These are usually collaborative efforts by the class. They could include class newspapers, newsletters, maps, yearbooks, or anything that allows for the class to organize and combine their efforts in a published form.

Classification Students use categories to group things based on how they are alike. A common example in elementary is classifying plants and animals in science class. In math class, they may classify types of angles or triangles. Here is an example for math (geometry) practice.

Classroom Conversations When I was in high school, I had a social studies teacher that would guide us toward class conversations about once ever two weeks or so. The class was always very responsive, and at the time, we just assumed that he was giving us a day off. Looking back now, I see that these discussions were expertly guided toward the teacher's chosen topic of the day. He was pretty good at what he did! Conversations in the classroom can be a great way to get more people involved and to gauge how much everyone understands. Depending on the class and the topic, teachers an decide how much guidance is needed as the lesson begins and progresses. Check out what Frederick Erickson had to say about this approach.

Classroom Mailboxes Obviously, these can be used as a place to sort student work, but they are also quite useful for organizing worksheets for different subjects or classes. Secondary teachers may want to consider them for this purpose. You can make your own, but you might want to consider just checking these out. They don't cost that much, and you can re-use them from year to year.

Classroom Management Strategies One of the biggest challenges for teachers is knowing how to manage the behaviors in their classroom. Classroom management is all about making your high expectations very clear and knowing how to handle challenges to the standards you've set. These challenges are often behavioral. This short video has some good tips for keeping things under control.

Classroom Meetings

Classroom Organization

Classroom Posters

Classroom Routines Having a routine in your classroom can seem like a hassle at first. You have to take time out of your already overloaded schedule to teach students simple procedures. In the long run though, having routines in place can be a great time saver. Classroom routines can be established for everything from sharpening pencils and turning in homework to knowing how the class should operate in the event that an unprepared substitute shows up. Don't underestimate the power here. Establishing good routines can be as important as having solid lesson plans. Routines should be a part of your overall classroom management plan.

Classroom Rules

Cloze Procedure A cloze procedure is used to check for understanding of context in a reading task. The student is expected to replace missing words with appropriate vocabulary in a given passage using context clues and their own understanding of the subject they have been reading about.

Clustering This is a method used for organizing information when preparing to write. Unlike most linear methods of organization, this is based more on mapping what you are going to write about. It is sometimes compared to brainstorming, but it is a more organized approach. It helps students to focus on what comes to mind when they choose one particular topic to write about.

Cognitive Strategy Instruction

Cold Call This is an instructional strategy that is dreaded by students who tend to drift off and daydream during class. The teacher calls on students during the course of the lesson and subsequent discussion without really considering who is volunteering to answer. That means that even students who don't have their hands raised might get called on at any time. This isn't meant to be used as a tool for "catching" people who are not paying attention. Rather, you would hope that students in a class where cold calls are used would enter the room ready to pay attention and contribute. When used correctly, this approach can solicit input from students who otherwise would probably not have offered their valuable insights on the lesson of the day.

Collaborative Learning In collaborative learning, students work with each other to discuss a given "problem" and come up with possible solutions. This can be done in pairs or in small groups. Advantages include students taking more ownership for their learning, improved social interactions, and built in peer tutoring opportunities.

Common Core

Compare and Contrast In my own experience, this method is used quite a bit in reading and language arts instruction. Charts are often created to show how two things are alike or different. Comparisons show how things are alike, while contrasts focus on differences.

Computer Assisted Instruction As the name implies, this is instruction that uses the computer as a tool for instructing students. This can be a good way of connecting with learners who enjoy spending time on the computer, but it is meant to be a tool, not a replacement for the teacher.

Concept Attainment This strategy is an example of indirect instruction. This approach ties in well with contrasting and comparing given items. Students learn to oranize and categorize as they look for the common attributes of a given group. They also look for ways to identify things that do not belong in a given category.

Concept Mapping Some people learn better by seeing a visual representation of what is being taught. Concept maps help students to start with a main idea and then branch out to important key concepts. This is done by using shapes like circles or squares that are connected by lines that branch out to related ideas. This type of graphic organizer is often used by teachers to illustrate new ideas, but it can also be used to assess how well students understand what they have been taught. To do this, students are shown examples of concept maps and are then given the opportunity to construct their own map illustrating their understanding of the subject.

Conducting Experiments Most students love exploring and learning science concepts through inquiry. Hands on experimenting (with the guidance of the teacher) can be a great way to get students thinking at a higher level. In my experience, it is very important for the teacher to help the students to understand the connection between the experiments they are performing and the objective of the lesson. Some "science in a box" type modules provide very little content knowledge for students. Students enjoy the hands on activities, but they will not always "get" what is being taught unless the connection is made with the help of the teacher.

Conferencing with Students Many teachers miss out on a golden opportunity to connect with students and to understand what and how they are thinking. You conference with students while they are working during class. This is a simple process that can reap major rewards. Start by asking the student how they are doing with the problem they are working on at the moment. Ask about what they are learning and what is giving them problems. You guide them by offering tips and by specifically asking what they need help with to keep them moving forward. Ask about strategies they are using and offer new ones for them to try out. This is a much better use of in class work time than just walking around the room watching to make sure that students are working.

Connecting to Prior Knowledge Sometimes it's easy to forget that some students might not have much, if any, prior knowledge about what is being taught. Use questioning and tools like brainstorming and KWL charts to assess what your students know and where they are lacking. Look for ways to connect what is being taught to their everyday life. This might be things they do, things they've seen, things they've read about, or something that seems totally unrelated. Get the class talking about a topic and keep your ears open for something you can use to make a connection. Students often don't realize that activating prior knowledge can help them to better understand new material. Help them to make this connection and they might just surprise you with how interested they become.

Constructivism

Cooperative Learning

Co-teaching

Cognitive Thinking

Critical Listening

Critical Literacy

Critical Reading

Critical Thinking Activities

Data Analysis

Defining

Descriptions

Differentiated Instruction When you differentiate instruction, you place an emphasis on what your students already know and how they do their best learning. Here are some ideas for putting together effective differentiated instruction lesson plans for your classroom.

Directive Model

Discussion Groups

Educational Technology

Emotional Support

Entrance tickets (also called Admission tickets)

Flipping Your Classroom In a flipped classroom, students are expected to watch a prepared video on their own time (at home) before coming to class. The video is prepared by the teacher or a third party. The idea is that students will already have a base knowledge when they enter the classroom. Class time can be spent focusing more on the students instead of a lecturing teacher.

Frayer Model

Give One / Get One

Grab Bag

Group Based Instruction

Group Work Students working together toward some common learning objective. This is often a class project. Working in groups is also used as a way to teach students about cooperating with others and sharing responsibilities.

Group Writing

Information Technology

Instructional Scaffolding

Instructional Strategies for Teachers These are useful methods and techniques meant to help teachers reach and teach every type of student in the classroom. Being familiar with a wide variety of instructional strategies is quite helpful when differentiating instruction.

KWL charts

Learning Logs Students keep track of their own learning. They write about how they responded to learning challenges given by the teacher.

Learning Support

Math Multiplication Games Games designed to help students to learn and use multiplication facts.

Metacognition Thinking about your own thinking processes. In education, this relates to how a student thinks about their own thinking and learning.

Phonics Connecting sounds with specific letters or groups of letters. This skill is used for teaching people how to read.

Questioning This is a skill that is learned over time. An experienced teacher uses questions to direct the class, dig deeper into relevant issues, and to encourage higher level thinking in his or her students. New educators should make it a priority to learn the best questioning techniques for teachers. Here is a question that is meant to get you thinking: What is teaching? (Feel free to answer that one in the comments!!!)

Questions to the Teacher Students submit questions to the teacher related to a specific topic that will be discussed in class (see the link above about questioning techniques).

Quick Talk

Quick Writes

Read and Say Something

Reading Comprehension

Reciprocal Teaching

Sentence Starters

Snowball Fights

Special Education

STEAM Science, Technology, Engineering, ART, and Math. Take a peek at some instructional strategies for teaching science.

STEM Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math

Sticky Notes

Teaching Strategies We all need a plan, right? These are strategies for getting the point of your lessons across to your students as painlessly as possible. You will need to adjust your approach depending on the audience you are teaching. Here are some strategies for teaching high school students.

Think-Pair-Write

Think-Write-Share

Transformed Text

Whole Brain Teaching

Word Splash A collection of words related to a given topic is presented in a "splash" style to get students thinking about and discussing the topic.

Worksheets

Writer's Workshop

Written Conversations

Writing Prompts

Writing Strategies

Always More to Come!

I wanted to include an infographic about Marzano's 9 instructional strategies for teachers. Why? Because some people think that this short list is all there is when it comes to planning instruction, and that's what they're looking for right now. Here's his list, but I invite you to keep on reading after you check it out. There is SOOO much more here, and it is all meant to help teachers and students to achieve new levels of success!

Find more education infographics on e-Learning Infographics

A Resource for Teachers

I want this site to be one of the best online resources for teachers. As a teacher, becoming familiar with a variety of techniques for teaching is essential if you want to keep students interested in their own education and actively learning in your class. These strategies and methods of teaching are the tools of your trade. Taking the time to learn about them will help both you and your students. In addition, adding some variety to your teaching is a great way to prevent yourself from burning out.
Establishing and Breaking Routines
Routine is nice up to a point, but there is a very real danger of falling victim to a creeping complacency that can lead to boredom and disinterest for both teacher and student. Don't let that happen! Above, you will find a list of instructional strategies for teaching that can give a new spark to your teaching style. Feel free to print it out and then check off different strategies as you use them. As this site grows, more strategies, definitions (help with all of the academic jargon) and specific methods used by teachers will become available. Even without step by step instructions though, just looking through this list of ideas should help to get you out of any teaching rut you may have fallen into over your years of teaching. You'll no doubt notice that I like to write in bullet points. What can I say? That's just my style and I never intended to create another purely academic site.

New Ideas for Teaching
If you are a new teacher with at least nine weeks of classroom experience, you have no doubt learned by now that there are a lot of different ideas and teaching strategies that trickle down from the powers above you. You will often be introduced to these ideas during a half day in-service presentation, and then be expected to implement them in your classroom based on a plastic 3 ring binder filled with Xeroxed copies that someone brought back to your district from yet another in-service meeting that was held specifically for administrators. (Wouldn't you love to speak at one of those meetings one day?) These binders, and the often confusing instructions they contain, can sometimes induce spontaneous panic attacks in teachers. Another purpose of this site is to make these surprise packages a little bit less scary and to help us all to become the best teachers that we can be.

Becoming a Better Teacher

Do you remember your time in school? I remember a lot of fun moments and a lot of time spent playing with other kids during recess. In my later years in school, I remember a lot of the time spent between classes as I talked with friends, but in the learning environment, I remember only the moments when our teacher went above and beyond to teach us. Day to day activities certainly are the back bone of good teaching but without any special application, many of these lessons were not striking or memorable to me. Now, as a teacher, I sometimes reflect on my own experiences as a student and try to adjust my teaching so that it becomes more "sticky" for my students. I also sometimes consider my own teaching methods when I'm sitting in an interminable in-service presentation. As I sit listening to one person after another reading from PowerPoint slides, I always vow silently to myself that I'll never do anything like that to a classroom full of students again.

What are These Strategies for Instruction?

Make up as many names and acronyms as you like, but instructional strategies are really just the methods you use to teach your students. Teachers have been looking for the best ways to get their message across for years. They try things, see if they work, and adjust when necessary.

Don't Get Buried in Academic Jargon

The field of education has quite a bit of jargon. Most of the teachers I know are very busy teaching a classroom full of students. There is a chance that they missed the latest article on the best practices in education. They're too busy grading papers, preparing lessons, filling out weekly progress reports, and dealing with actual student issues. The teachers who taught me used many of the same methods that are presented on this, and similar, sites. They just didn't have as many fancy names for what they did. That is part of the reason why I decided to start this site. I believe that keeping things as simple as possible is a good idea. This page gives very brief summaries of some of today's popular teaching methods. Some will look very familiar to veteran teachers, and you may even know them by some other name. I hope that these teachers will chime in with comments to share what they have learned through their years of experience. There really isn't that much new stuff under the sun, but knowing when and how to use various strategies is something that comes with experience. Newer teachers will find ideas to help them with "real life" situations that they cannot prepare you for in college. Basically, I hope this site will present effective strategies for teaching that might help all of us to become the best teachers we can possibly be.

Becoming an Effective Teacher for Your Students

It takes a special person to really make a lasting impression on kids, but it's not impossible. If you want to make a lesson effective, it takes a bit of planning and preparation and a wide variety of teaching approaches for the classroom. I hope that this site will introduce you to some effective teaching methods. Implementing them isn't all that hard either, if you plan them out in advance, and in most cases its worth implementing a few strategies at a time so that kids that learn in different ways all have a chance to really connect to the material (differentiation). For me I always did learn best when implementation was involved. When we read books I really enjoyed projects where we would take the material in the book and create something tangible to demonstrate our comprehension of the material. I remember making a picture depicting the entire storyline of James and the Giant Peach once when I was nine or ten. Not only did I read the book, but my drawing was a simple way for me to demonstrate my understanding of the story and share it with other students around me.

Practical Application and Differentiating Instruction

In my math classes I always responded better to practical application. It wasn't enough for me to learn what sign and cosign was, I needed to understand how these functions were applicable to the real world. As teachers, we are tasked with connecting with lots of different kids in lots of different classes. Not all kids respond the way I did to hands on application, and not all kids learn the same way either. It can be difficult to really reach everyone, but by incorporating a variety of delivery strategies into your repertoire it becomes easier to reach more kids in a meaningful way.
Different Strokes for Different Folks
Group work is an area that lots of people including children connect with. Although it's not particularly helpful for every kid, there are those that thrive on it. Independent study is another technique that is beneficial to some kids while not as great for others. By identifying the students in your classes that seem to do well with one method over another, it becomes easy to start building your curriculum around all forms of teaching and learning. Some types of teaching strategies may include things as simple as introducing books on CD to kids instead of only having them read from the text. Although many students have no trouble with comprehension of text, some kids can better learn to comprehend material when isolated from the actual reading of text. One other technique to help teach kids how to comprehend reading is to use acting in the classroom. Again, not all kids will respond to this, but some will. It's all about covering different methods of learning.
To Group or Not to Group
For mathematics I remember our teacher separated us by skill level. Kids that were able to do more advanced math worked in one area of the class while kids at a lower level worked on lower level math together. This is sometimes called accelerated or individualized math. Others may call it a form of ability grouping. It is an effective way of keeping advanced kids interested and motivated while not discouraging kids at a lower level.

Spiraling of previously learned material is another way to ingrain important material into the minds of kids who need repetition to really learn something important. By introducing concepts and then summarizing those same concepts every day, while building upon them in different ways, a teacher can easily emphasize what's most important. That teacher can then properly prepare their students for advanced material that is based off the foundational concepts which are repeated daily.
Remembering What You've Learned
Another very common strategy for driving learning in any course is to use Mnemonics. These are the simple association techniques sometimes that can help describe a process in one's brain. Many common mnemonics stick with kids well into adulthood - "I" before "E" except after "C". You probably still use that one to this day. The takeaway here is this. There are many different learning and teaching strategies that can be implemented in the classroom independent of student age or skill level. The trick in implementing them effectively is to choose a variety of techniques that support your material and present the information to your classroom using them all. Some kids are simply going to respond to certain teaching strategies better than others. It's your job as a teacher to cycle through various teaching methods in an attempt to reach all kids in the class.

Please share your favorite instructional strategies below in the comments!

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FRED, GEOFRED and FRASER sites bring eco and geo data into classrooms.

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Graph and download economic data from Q1 1947 to Q4 2017 about final sales, headline figure, production, sales, domestic, real, GDP, and USA.

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Ue of digital portfolios could capture our work towards our work goals, could be used to capture implementation of PD in classrooms, could be used to capture student learning. Could help make everyone practice reflective thinking

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vocabulary, reading, thinking and writing routines.

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OMG... their site for curriculum in social studies and the professional development agendas- they give insight into amazing things that could go on!!!

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Units that begin with provocative questions.

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Lesson that ask kids to compare their life to others, to build global awareness.

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Vertical Alignment of Priority Standards for K-12

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Proficient | Question 1
Student explains that the memoir is useful evidence because it is a first-hand description of someone who lived in the South before and after the Civil War. Question 2
Student explains that the memoir is less useful as evidence either because it is a memoir that may be embellished or because it was written decades after the events described.
Emergent | Question 1
Student sees that the memoir provides some evidence of how the South changed after the Civil War but makes assumptions about the memoir that go beyond the warrants of the evidence or does not fully explain how the memoir could provide useful evidence.   Question 2
Student sees that the memoir has limitations but provides an incomplete explanation about why the memoir is limited as evidence.
Basic | Question 1
Student does not provide a relevant explanation for how the memoir could be useful as evidence.   Question 2
Student does not identify or explain the limitations of the memoir as evidence.

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“My young manhood having spent in the South just before, during and after the War of Secession, I may say I lived in two distinct periods of our Southern history, for this war completely severed the grand old plantation life, with all its peculiar interests and demands, from the stirring and striving conditions that followed. The first was a life complete in all things to foster intelligence and honor; the second simply, for me, a constant struggle and a hard fight to keep the proverbial wolf from the door, but with pluck, frugality and endurance the fight was won, and now, in my old age, with kind relatives and good friends, I have found happiness and contentment.”

Question 1:  How might Thomas’s memoir be useful as evidence of how the South changed after the Civil War?

Question 2:  What about this source might make it less useful as evidence of how the South changed after the Civil War?

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Simple instructional framework that can be created for each instructional unit.

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Simple instructional framework that can be created for each instructional unit.

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C3 Framework says that all Social Studies Course focus on:

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C3 Framework says that all Social Studies Course focus on:

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1. Developing questions and conducting inquiries
2.Core Ideas in the discipline
3.Evaluating sources and using evidence
4.Communicating conclusions and Taking Action