Module 4 - Research-Based Instructional Strategies
Good classroom management is complex. One of the key ingredients to maintaining a safe, responsive, and inclusive classroom environment is implementing daily research-based instructional strategies. In this module, we explored four of these strategies and the impact they have on student learning, motivation, and behavior.
The For Strategies are:
Gradual Release of Responsibility
Differentiation
Rich and Relevant Task
Feedback
Gradual Release of Responsibility
What are differentiated instructions and learning?
All students bring prior knowledge, skills, and experiences with them to school and they are dependent on this prior learning to make sense of new learning. To be effective, we need to find out just what it is that the students already know and can do.
When teachers know their students, they can select contexts, content, and strategies that will engage them and facilitate their learning. Both the focusing and teaching inquiries in the learning process rely on the knowledge of students.
Rich and Relevant Task - Success Criteria:
Effective feedback
goes beyond just praise or criticism. It is informative and instructive to learning goals. Ideally, feedback shows students how to monitor and evaluate their own performing, making them less dependent on the teacher and more in control of their own learning. The ultimate goal is to teach learners how to give feedback to themselves, as they will need to do that all the time as musicians.What I think is effective feedback from the perspective of my field of expertise – teaching music:
1. Constructive feedback should teach something useful and specific
2. Be sensitive to the individual needs of the student
3. Keep it simple
4. Students taking notes
5. Self or peer - assessment
6. Tracking the progress
7. Notice the hard work