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Instructional Strategies Paper

When get involved in a class room as a teacher or a practitioner you will see many different instructional strategies that teachers may use. These strategies may change from teacher to teacher and grade level to grade level because not all strategies work for everyone. That is one that that Mrs. Franzmeier told me was that I need to find instructional strategies that work for me and for the way I teach. She told me that it is something that sitting in a classroom listening to a professor all day can teach you. She said that you need to be in the classroom getting hands on experience to gain the knowledge. During this time I saw three different instructional strategies used. She had the use of whole group instruction, co teaching, and cooperative learning.

The first strategy I will look into and talk about is how Mrs. Franzmeier used whole group instruction. She used whole group instruction to the whole class during math and right before reading groups. I can see this strategy being used in every single subject and just altered for other students. Whole group instruction can be found in many different ways. It can be verbal, a checklist, written, and it can also be a combination of all of these ideas. Mrs. Franzmeier used a combination of all of them she had the information written out on the board on what was going to be accomplished she also had checklists and times and finally she would verbally explain it to the class. This strategy affects the students learning because whole group instruction is the first step for checking for understanding from the students. The reason for this is because you need to make sure everything is clear to the students before moving on otherwise it is only going to c...

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...ier room you can see it in the games when the kids are learning but they are also having fun. I can see this idea working in your math reading and social studies. Yet, not so much in science because once you start doing labs and experience you have to be very careful with what you do and it is not very flexible. I think that is learning strategy allows the student to find themselves in the learning. What I mean by this is that the students are learning from real life connection and learning by doing not just from what the book is telling them.

At this point I am getting involved in the teaching community. I am holding conversations with fellow teachers. I am also starting to lead part of the day in the class. I am really enjoying getting to get the hands on experience and this observation is really making me realize how much I want to be a special education teacher.