https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TQUcrtSUunFd7VNebzyx4Yyn9uGxwnQ7Yo03ROojMvw/edit
Understanding instructional strategies and utilizing them in your classes can help you reach all different types of learners while teaching your lessons. We know that no two students learn the same exact way and using multiple methods of teaching material can help you reach your students and help them reach their goals for the school year. This artifact is a class project that we as EDU 202 completed in the fall semester of 2021. The artifact goes into detail about multiple strategies that we as teachers can use in our future classrooms. Content can be difficult to digest, especially as the grade levels progress and the year continues on which can cause some students to fall behind but if you use multiple strategies, you can get the material to each of those students.
Quite honestly, I could go through the document and give you examples of where I’d use each strategy in my lessons. Socratic Seminars are great for expanding knowledge of complicated texts, which is common throughout history; Roleplaying is good for demonstrating to students two sides of a debate or of a war, etc… As I mentioned in the paragraph above, no two students learn the same. You have some students who are above grade level, some who are right at the grade level, some who are grade below, some students have disabilities- so teachers will forever be trying to figure out how to reach every one of those students and differentiating the methods in which you teach the material can help teachers in getting students prepared for the next grade level or help them prepare for the great big world. Differentiation is key and having a deep understanding of these strategies and topics will help me as a teacher in the long run.
