With guided instructional teaching practices, the students take an active role in the educational process and the instructor acts as a facilitator or guide. With guided instruction, students learn from their experiences, making it an inquiry-based or discovery-based model of teaching. A variety of teaching strategies fall under the umbrella of guided instruction.
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Notetaking strategies can play a key role in guided instruction. Check out these ideas.
Guided instruction involves prompts, cues, questions, and the use of small groups. Click here for more.
Click "Real-Time Teaching" for an example of what small-group guided instruction might look like.