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When you curate instruction for your students it is key to plan for communication with the people in the room through engagement, questioning, and discussion. You can scaffold their understanding when you assess them and show flexibility when you know you need to differentiate for your class or a few students in your class.
3a. Communicating with Students
3a. Communicating with Students
Communication is key to any relationship with people especially the students in your classroom that you see every day. It is a hard skill to master but as an educator that is constantly talking to people all day, you need to build your communication skills. You use communication when providing instructions and giving explanations through your lessons. In the classroom, I use verbal, non-verbal, and written communication.
3b. Using Questioning and Discussion Techniques
3b. Using Questioning and Discussion Techniques
When using questioning in the classroom I try to make my students respond to higher-level thinking questions. To allow all of my students to be heard I let them turn and talk to their table group partners. I can access what the students know if I walk around the room listening to them talking to one another. When class discussions are present it is good in the role of the teacher to provide feedback to the students after you ask them a question. This allows the students to feel heard and further the class conversation.
3c. Engaging Students in Learning
3c. Engaging Students in Learning
I love to engage my students in fun ways because engagement is the first part of your lesson to get your students excited. It is like a first impression for students to want to learn more and answer questions they might be unfamiliar with. I like to engage my students in many ways but it always includes active participation.
3d. Using Assessment in Instruction
3d. Using Assessment in Instruction
When planning and pursuing instruction in the classroom it is important to make sure that you are assessing formally or informally. This method assures the student is meeting the learning expectation for the day. If they don't meet their targets it is easy to scaffold or pull small groups to get the class on target with their learning expectations. You can assess with pre-assessments, formative, and summative assessments. I like to use a variety of assessments throughout my lessons but the easiest type for me is to exit tickets to assure what my students have learned with each lesson.
3e. Demonstrating Flexibility and Responsiveness
3e. Demonstrating Flexibility and Responsiveness
In any classroom, you have to prepare for the unexpected. Students and administration are known to surprise you with many distractions or interruptions in the schedule. As a teacher, it is your role to roll with the punches of the day and be flexible, and respond appropriately. Sometimes things take longer than expected so as the teacher you have to adjust the schedule to make sure you can arrange the rest of the schedule. When things take less time than expected it is always good to have additional work to support the lesson and its standard.
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