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Why and What
Why and What
Teachers match the intensity of instruction to the intensity of the student’s learning and behavioral challenges. Intensive instruction involves working with students with similar needs on a small number of high priority, clearly defined skills or concepts critical to academic success. Teachers group students based on common learning needs; clearly define learning goals; and use systematic, explicit, and well-paced instruction. They frequently monitor students’ progress and adjust their instruction accordingly. Within intensive instruction, students have many opportunities to respond and receive immediate, corrective feedback with teachers and peers to practice what they are learning. Click here and here for more information.
How
How
Using Data to Inform Instruction
Using Data to Inform Instruction
Description: Data-driven instruction (DDI) enables teachers to make timely and targeted instructional adjustments in their classrooms in order to meet students’ unique needs.
Rationale: When teachers who share content collaboratively analyze the results of common assessments, they are in a stronger position to identify root causes of students’ learning gaps and make necessary adjustments to instruction. Through conducting item- or question-level analysis, teachers can pinpoint not only what mistakes occurred but why they occurred. (https://www.erstrategies.org/cms/files/3710-data-driven-instruction-building-block-pdf.pdf)
Small Group Instruction
Small Group Instruction
Small group instruction usually follows whole group instruction to reinforce or reteach specific skills and concepts and provides a reduced student-teacher ratio. Small groups typically range in size from four to six students. There are four key benefits to small group instruction:
Personalize Instruction
Personalize Instruction
Small group instruction allows teachers to work more closely with each student. This type of instruction provides the opportunity to evaluate students’ learning strengths, locate gaps in the development of their reading or math skills and tailor lessons focused on specific learning objectives. In addition, small group instruction allows teachers to check for understanding, reinforce skills presented in whole group instruction, and/or change the pacing of a lesson (i.e., teachers may break down concepts not easily understood or quickly pass though lessons that students clearly understand).
Provide Feedback
Provide Feedback
Small group instruction allows a teacher to monitor student actions more closely and to provide frequent and individualized feedback at point of use to improve specific reading or math skills.
Reteach or Pre-teach
Reteach or Pre-teach
Small group instruction is an opportunity for teachers to provide additional teaching and practice often needed for struggling students to master important skills or understand key concepts (e.g., phonemic awareness skill of manipulating ending sounds, or operations with whole numbers or rational numbers). Through the use of diagnostic assessments, a teacher can determine skills or concepts for which students may need more instructional support. Small group instruction also provides an opportunity for teachers to pre-teach specific vocabulary, challenging text structures, or other prerequisite knowledge to English learners or any students who may experience difficulty in upcoming lessons.
Build Confidence Through Collaboration
Build Confidence Through Collaboration
Small group instruction can provide a comfortable environment and boost the confidence of students who might not otherwise participate in a lesson or activity. Small group instruction encourages teamwork as everyone in the group is working toward achieving the same goal.
5 Steps to Effective Small Group Instruction
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