Instructional Strategies is the eighth standard for InTASC and requires the teacher to provide multiple tools to engage the learner to expand their knowledge on a given subject. By having the student use their critical thinking, they are learning to combine a variety of information to carry across multiple parts of their minds. The teacher will provide online math programs to reinforce the learned concepts. A warm-up for students to prepare for a lesson and popular videos with songs to engage the class are avenues for a teacher to provide instructional strategies for students.
Math Online Program
The student will participate with a math-based computer program that will assist with the students’ base knowledge on addition and subtraction in the first-grade class. The interactive online application will provide a fun, game-like atmosphere for the student to engage with, all while practicing the material and learning. This online program will encourage a technology-based curriculum along with the necessary math skills that will reinforce what the student needs to know.
The teacher will provide opportunities for the student to use their scientific skills with an experiment with raisins and soda. The teacher will provide a model of the experiment for the students before allowing the students to proceed to follow the rules. Encouraging the students to follow the directions and to ask questions as needed will allow the students to become the teacher, and the teacher will become the student.
Introduction to Order of the Planets
The teacher will provide multiple intelligences of learning for the student. The teacher will utilize a science video on Youtube that will offer a musical rhythm as students discover the order of the planets. The teacher will also use this song to give a mnemonic for the student to memorize the planet order. In utilizing these different methods, the teacher is providing different avenues for the student to engage with the curriculum.