Instructional Strategies

The instruction strategies I chose to focus on and critique were post-it summaries, KWL chart and analogy making. While comparing them to Marzano's effective strategies I noticed that they all met at least one of Marzano's guidelines. Post-it summaries the students wrote down 3 points they learned from a video and then when the music stopped, they shared their 3 facts with other people. This also got them learning cooperatively. This worked well with some of my tough students, but engagement was low with some of my shy girls. The KWL worked well and I will definitely use it again because I thought it was really effective. They had to summarize what they remember and activated their prior knowledge. It also got them asking questions about things they wanted to know. This can help guide my instruction. I used analogies with our vocabulary. This strategie really uses higher level thinking because they had to know the definition and compare it to other words. This worked well for my higher kids but was hard for my lower kids. This strategy is effective but I will need to work on it more with some students.