chapter 4- effective instructional strategies

CHAPTER IV EFFECTIVE INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES FOR LANGUAGE

By: DONAME A. REYES

Instructor III

• What are the characteristics of an instructional strategy that makes students learn?

1. Interactive

2. Integrated

3. Introspective

4. Reflective contextualized

5. Experiential

6. Collaborative

7. Cooperative

Interactive• An interactive teaching strategy is in

keeping with the principle that learning isan active process.

• The more you involve yourselves in thelearning process, the more learning youget.

• For maximum and optimum learning, thestudent must, therefore, be activelyengaged directly the learning to makelearning truly EXPERIENTIAL.

• She/he must interact with

–Classmates

–Teachers

–Learning materials

–and most of all with himself

Modes of Interaction • The use of cooperative and collaborative

learning gives your students an opportunityto interact with one another.

• The most important resource for learning isthe student himself/herself.

• INTERACT WITH TEACHER:

– Your personality is a big factor in makingstudent-teacher interaction happen.Remember, you are so powerful that yourmood determines the climate in theclassroom.

• Interact with Instructional Material

–You feel good when your students lookforward to your class because almosteveryday there is a new, interestingmaterial to touch and to manipulate oractivity to do. In the language classes,this is less of a problem, because yourreading materials in literature orpanitikan are in themselves interesting.

Interact with Self

• Learning for the student also means interacting with himself/herself.

MI-Integrated Teaching Strategy

Teaching is also integrative when it includes all learners with multiple intelligences and varied learning styles. The multiple intelligences and learning styles. Classroom activities for the different intelligence.

1. Verbal-Linguistic – discussions, debates, journal writing, conferences, essays, stories, poems, storytelling, listening activities, reading.

2. Logical-mathematical – calculations,experiments, comparisons, number games,using evidence, formulating and testinghypothesis, deductive and inductive reasoning.

3. Spatial – concept maps, graphs, charts, artprojects, metaphorical thinking, visualization,videos, slides, visual presentations.

4. Bodily-Kinesthetic- role-playing, dance,athletic activities, manipulative, hands-ondemonstrations, concept rolling.

5. Musical – playing music, singing, rapping,whistling, clapping, analyzing sounds and music.

6. Interpersonal - community-involvementprojects, discussions, cooperative learning, teamgames, peer tutoring, conferences, socialactivities, sharing.

7. Intrapersonal – student choice, journalwriting, self-evaluation, personal instruction,independent study, discussing feelings,reflecting.

8. Naturalist- ecological field trips,environmental study, caring for plants andanimals, outdoor work, pattern recognition.

Learning Styles-Integrated Activities

• To integrate your students’ varied learningstyles, you also have to employ differentinstructional strategies:

1. Mastery (exercise-practice) – directinstruction, drill and repetition, demonstrations,competitions, activities that focus on: organizingand managing information, practicing a skill,observing, describing, memorizing andcategorizing.

2. Interpersonal ( experience-personal) – teamgames, learning circle, role playing, groupinvestigation, peer tutoring, personal sharing,activities that focus on: describing feelings,emphasizing, responding and valuing.

3. Understanding (explain-prove) – inquiry,concept formation, debate, problem solving,independent study, essays, logic problems,activities that includes on: classifying, analyzing,using, evidence, applying, comparing andcontrasting, evaluating.

4. Self- expressive ( explore-produce) –divergent thinking, metaphors, creative artactivities, imagining, open-ended discussion,imagery, creative problem solving, activities thatfocus on hypothesizing, synthesizing,symbolizing, creating, metaphorical, expression,self-expression.

Thank you….