Teaching Strategies

Lesson Planning1. Objectives: What do you want students to know and be able to do?

2. Formative Assessment (Occurs before teaching and during teaching a unit, Informs teachers of students’ background knowledge, Helps plan lessons, Not graded)

3. Activities: Introduce the Lesson (Taps into Background Knowledge, Motivates Students) and Activities for Learning

4. Summative Assessment: Graded, Checks

for student understanding, Occurs after teaching.

Forms of Formative Assessment

• Quiz

• Observing

• Class Discussion

• Graphic Organizer

• Thumbs Up/Thumbs Down

• Muddy Waters

Gain Student’s Attention

1st Novelty Gain Student’s Attention

2nd Connect Emotions

3rd Make it meaningful

Give time to Process the Information

Processing Time

• Journaling

• Class Discussions

• Worksheets

• Relaxing

• Projects

• Brainstorming

• Many more

Strategy (multiple approach)

•Linguistic: Read, Listen, Speak, and Write

•Visual: Pictures, Graphs, Maps, Sculpture, Paint

•Physically Move: Move, Dance, Touch, Build

•Music: Poetry, Rhythm & Rhyme, Sing, Dance

•Math & Science: graphs, numbers, cause & effect

Summative Assessment

•Test

•Essay

•Portfolio

•Performance Assessment(Using Learning in the Real World)

Performance Assessment Criteria

1. Connects and Relates to Real Life

2. Taps into Higher Level Thinking Skills (Bloom’s Taxonomy)

3. Contains some form of Collaboration

4. Takes place over a period of time

Performance Assesment

1. Mean and Range

2. Sample: 5, 7 3, 9 Sample: 4, 2, 6

3. Car activity:

A. Form groups of 2

b. Form a hypothesis in your group about traffic on Doyna and ___ Str

c. One individual in each group is the timer and recorder, the other counts cars

d. Go outside and 2 groups will count all the cars on Doyna Str, the other two groups will count the cars on ____ Str

d. You will time traffic for 2 minutes, write down the number of cars, busses, maxi-taxis that went by. Repeat this 2 more times for a total of 3 sets of scores.

Activity Continued

1. Find the Mean

2. Find the Range

3. Graph the Mean

4. Was your hypothesis correct?

5. Do you have a recommendation for the city?

Performance Assessments

• Letter

• Role Play

• Presentation

• Describe a sporting event

• Debate / Panel Discussion

• Game (create or play)

• TV Show

• Song

• Critique a Performance or Work of Art

• Design an Advertisement

• Write a Math Story Problem

• Book Review

• Give Directions

• Design a Survey

• Demonstrate

• Interview

• Journal

• Poetry

• Puppet Show

• Skit

• Solve a Mystery

• Create Explanations for a Museum Exhibit

• Critique a chart or graph

• Justify an opinion

• Explain an Invention

• Write an Obiturary

• Road Map

• Create a Scavenger Hunt

Possible Activities• Create a menu, brochure, want ad for a job

• Role play eating at a restaurant, shopping, visiting a home

• Solve a mystery presented by the teacher

• Explain how to do something, such as cook, fix a broken object, sew

• Create a survey for the class on a topic of choice, then analyze and evaluate the answers

• Give a tour of your home, city, or neighborhood, explain the importance of the different sites