Teacher Centered Instructional Strategies

Direct Instruction

Teacher selects instructional objectives, the supporting content, and the instructional strategies used in the lesson

Indirect Instruction

The teacher takes the lead in determining the instructional objectives and corresponding content, but the students may be involved in some degree of planning

Deductive Strategies

Involve deductive reasoning in which the teacher starts with a known principle or concept followed by examples of the concept.

Inductive Strategies

Involves inductive reasoning where the lesson begins with examples, and the students examine the examples in an effort to identify the main principle or concept.

Focus Lessons

Teacher's establish a lessons purpose and then model their thinking to illustrate for students how to approach the new learning

Guided Instruction

Teachers strategically use questions and assessment informed prompts, cues, direct explanation, and modeling to guide students to increasingly complex thinking and facilitate students' increased responsibility for task completion.

Collaborative Work

Teachers design and supervise tasks that enable students to be in productive groups to consolidate their thinking and understanding, and that require students to generate individual products that can provide formative assessment information.

Independent Work

Teachers design and supervise tasks that require students to apply information they have been taught to create new and authentic products.

Involves instructional approaches in which the teacher structures lessons in a straightforward, sequential manner focusing on mastery of knowledge and skills that can be taught in a step-by-step manner.

Presentations

An informative talk that a more knowledgeable person makes to less knowledgeable persons.

Demonstrations

Similar to a lecture in its direct communication of information from teacher to students. A demonstration involves a visual presentation to examine processes, information, and ideas.

Questioning

A critical instructional tool

Kinds of Questions

Questions for the Learning Domain

Convergent and Divergent Questions

Types of Questions

Questioning Techniques

Presenting Questions and Prompting Responses

Formulating Questions

Assessing and Using Questions

Encouraging Student Questions

Recitations

Involves a teacher asking students a series of relatively short answer questions to determine if they remember or understand previously covered content.

Practice & Drills

Practice

Involves going over material just learned; intended to consolidate, clarify, and emphasize what the student has already learned.

Drills

Involve repeating information on a particular topic until it is firmly established in the students mind.

Reviews

An opportunity for students to look at a topic another time

Guided Practice & Homework

Guided Practice

Students use and practice knowledge and skills being address in class

Homework

Study that students do when they are not under the direct supervision of their teachers, such as study at home, in the library, or in study hall