Instructional+Strategies

Instructional Approaches and Design __**INSTRUCTIONAL COMPONENTS**__ The following components are important aspects of building academic literacy for our students. Through research, these components have been shown to have positive impacts on the complex aspects of adolescent literacy. Each lesson should include the following:
 * 1) Explicit Vocabulary Instruction
 * 2) Direct and Explicit Comprehension Instruction
 * 3) Extended opportunities for discussion based on text interpretation and text based questions
 * 4) Extended opportunities for writing based on text interpretation, text based experiences, and real world writing.
 * 5) Strategies to increase student motivation and engagement in literacy learning
 * 6) Frequent checks for understanding
 * 7) interventions for those students who are struggling to make meaning.

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 * McCrel 9 Instructional Strategies** Research based Instructional Strategies that improve teaching and learning.

**Summarizing and Note-Taking** //Rick Wormeli Smart Card for Summarizaiton// Numerous Summarization strategies __Note-taking Strategies__ [|http://www.muskingum.edu/~cal/database/general/notetaking3.html#REAP]

These websites have information on how to structure groups, grading group work, research on the importance of group work and how to help groups work together. Ways of getting group work started and common problems in Cooperative learning. [|http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/html/icb.topic58474/wigintro.html#wig6] Tips on working on groups. [|http://www.auburn.edu/~burnsma/tips.html] Different types of group work, study groups and how to structure each for quality cooperative learning. [] Ways to structure cooperative learning. [] Although written for science projects, great ideas for working in Cooperative groups [] Templates for group responsibilities and different roles [|http://www.muskingum.edu/~cal/database/general/group.html#Worksheets] Discussion formats for groups of students []
 *  Cooperative Learning **

**Setting Objectives, Providing Feedback** **Setting Objectives:** is much more than simply posting the standards on the chalkboard. Setting objectives is a tool for students and teachers to provide two important aspects in the learning process. PURPOSE and DIRECTION. Purpose being the "what and why" of the lesson or unit and Direction being the "how". **Providing Feedback:** Utilizing rubrics to give students feedback is important to the learning process. Below are links to websites that will help teachers identify rubrics to utilize or spark ideas for creating their own rubrics. [] Create your own rubrics [] General rubrics for a variety of assessment and learning tools. []

** Cues, Questions, and Advance Organizers ** This link has several templates for Advanced graphic organizers [|**http://tinyurl.com/c7q9rcp**]
 * Advanced organizers **

** Non-linguistic Representations ** //Marzano's Six Steps to Academic Vocabulary// __****__

Generating and Testing Hypothesis Identifying Similarities and Differences Reinforcing Effort and Providing recognition Homework and Practice

__ **Flipped Classroom** __ The Flipped Classroom is exactly what the name says. Rather than doing the reading and watching of videos and lectures in class, students do this type of work outside of class. On the flip side, the class time is spent processing and interpreting the material with peers. [] []

**Checking for Understanding** Ongoing formative assessment of students: informal and daily assessment of how students are progressing

__**Collaborative Reading**__ <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">refers to an instructional activity that takes place in the form of a dialogue between teachers and students regarding segments of text. [|Reciprocal Teaching]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Reciprocal teaching **

Process for teachers and students in rendering meaning from text []
 * Strategic Collaborative Reading**

__**Intervention for Struggling Readers**__ <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Strategic Tutoring** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">An alternative to traditional tutoring in which the tutor not only helps the student complete and understand the immediate assignment or task, but also teaches the student a learning strategy to complete similar tasks indepedently in the future



__**Gradual Release of Responsibility**__ Also known as the Optimal Learning Model, this gradually "releases" the responsibility of understanding difficult texts from the teacher to the student.

**Ways to increase Classroom Participation and Engagement in Discussion** __Dou__g Lemov highlights 49 teaching strategies that he has observed in some of the most highly effective schools. These 49 strategies include everything from increasing engagement of students, increasing accountability in the classroom for students, and tools for teachers to utilize to see if students understand the content of the lesson. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Instructional and Classroom Management Strategies for Academic Success]