Although the content of a lesson is important, how it is presented to the students is of equal value. The Instructional Delivery Standard ensures that teachers effectively engage their students in the learning process by applying a variety of instructional strategies to the classroom. Teachers are able to meet the learning needs of individual students by engaging and maintaining students in active learning, differentiating instruction to meet students’ needs, and using a variety of effective instructional strategies and resources, such as Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligence.
Professional Practice Standard 3: Instructional Delivery
Instructional Activities
Students were given a research project to complete. Before they began, I modeled the activity by presenting a sample project I had created to the class.
In preparing for their AP exam, students read a passage and answered questions from their workbook individually, then compared their answers with their groups. The groups then competed against one another as a way for students to check their answer.
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During my internship, students were studying Shakespeare’s Macbeth, but were struggling with understanding the “big picture” of the text. In order for them to understand the content and encourage them to read with emphasis, I modeled a dramatic reading of one of Lady Macbeth’s speeches.
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I worked with a struggling student on reading Edgar Allan Poe. In order to increase reading comprehension, I introduced the reading strategy Reader’s Theater. In this audio, I scaffold instruction by taking turns reading with the student as we created a podcast presentation of The Tell-Tale Heart.
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