Summary
Short on time, big on impact! In just 30 minutes, this session will introduce you to engaging instructional strategies you can implement right away. Through interactive activities, we'll explore these strategies and brainstorm how to adapt them to your specific curriculum.
Essential Questions
How do instructional strategies enhance student learning?
Learning Goals
Investigate new instructional strategies to enhance learner engagement through hands-on activities.
Develop implementation plans to integrate new strategies effectively in the classroom.
Critically analyze the impact that student engagement has on student outcomes to optimize instructional practices.
Snapshot
Engage
Participants will analyze three statements in the “Walk Up Menu” about student engagement to determine which are fact and which are fiction using the instruction strategy Fiction in the Facts.
Explore
Participants will take a look at the “Quick Bite Menu” and choose one of the engaging instructional strategies: Double Bubble Map or Dividing the Pie to explore further.
Explain
Participants will choose one of four areas of student engagement to learn more about, watch the corresponding video, and discuss the most significant point they learn.
Extend
Participants will examine the “Strategies Takeout” and bookmark the LEARN Instructional Strategies website for future use in lesson plans.
Evaluate
“Lettuce Wrap Up” asks the participants to evaluate the likelihood that they would use one of the strategies covered by this session with the strategy Fist to Five.
Materials List
Presentation Slides - Instructional Strategy Food Truck (attached)
Double Bubble Map - Instructional Strategy Food Truck (attached; one per participant)
Dividing the Pie - Instructional Strategy Food Truck (attached; one per participant)
Pens/pencils
Computers with Internet access (optional)
Notebook paper
Engage
5 Minute(s)
Welcome participants, display slide 2 and introduce yourself and the session using the attached Presentation Slides.
Transition to slide 3, the “Walk Up Order,” and share the instructional strategy Fiction in the Facts with your participants. Instruct them to read through the three statements about student engagement and determine whether they can identify which is fiction and which is fact. Ask participants to identify the fictional statement (statement three) and explain their reasoning.
Display slides 4 and 5 to share the session’s essential question and learning goals with participants. This will provide a road map of where you will go together during the session and will let participants know what to expect.
Explore
10 Minute(s)
Transition to slide 6 and sum up the two strategies, Double Bubble Map and Dividing the Pie available on the “Quick Bite Menu.” Ask participants to look through the menu and decide which of the two instructional strategies they would like to explore further. As they are doing this, pass out the attached Double Bubble Map and Dividing the Pie handouts. Please note that the Double Bubble Map in the attachment uses squares instead of circles.
Use slides 7 and 8 to share the instructions for the Double Bubble Map and Dividing the Pie activities in that order. Provide your participants with 5-10 minutes to work on their chosen activity before sharing their completed work.
Explain
5 Minute(s)
Move to slide 9 and give a brief explanation of the POMS: Point of Most Significance instructional strategy. Poll the group to determine which area of student engagement they believe is most relevant to their classroom.
As a group, watch the selected video and instruct particular take note of the most significant point from the video. The videos can be found on the following slides:
Slide 10 - Aspects of Student Engagement: Affective
Slide 11 - Aspects of Student Engagement: Behavioral
Slide 12 - Aspects of Student Engagement: Cognitive
Slide 13 - Aspects of Student Engagement: Emotional
Encourage participants to share their points with the group. If it’s a quiet group, use pair-share to get participants talking.
Extend
5 Minute(s)
Transition to slide 14 and have participants scan the QR code, which takes them to the K20 LEARN website. Instruct participants to bookmark the website to review later because there are over 275 instructional strategies for them to explore and use in the lesson plans!
Evaluate
5 Minute(s)
Finally, display slide 15 and have participants use the quick formative assessment Fist to Five to show their likelihood of using one of the strategies covered today in their class. Explain that closure/reflection strategies are an important part of the learning process. However, they don’t have to be elaborate to provide relevant feedback to both the teacher and the student.
Follow-Up Activities
This session is meant to be a “bite-sized” version of the professional learning session, Instructional Strategy Cafe, in which participants are given a menu of instructional strategies to "taste test." Each of these strategies is research-based and supports components of authenticity. Once strategies have been chosen, the session is built around a three-course meal of the participants' chosen strategies. Each strategy option on the menu is accessible to any grade level and adaptable to any content area. Participants leave with hands-on tools that they can implement immediately in any class.
Research Rationale
Instructional strategies engage and provide opportunities for students to make connections to new information using their prior knowledge as a foundation. They make thinking visible to themselves, peers, and teachers (Keeley& Tobey, 2011, p. 171). Teachers can use instructional strategies to gain an idea of what the students know and need to learn. By doing this, they can target instruction and provide opportunities to build on students' prior knowledge. Instructional strategies can be used as a formative assessment, quickly assessing the students' understanding and providing teachers with a guide to develop further instruction and support as needed, and they can help students identify and monitor their own learning throughout lessons and units. Instructional strategies create an authentic learning and teaching environment for all students.
Resources
K20 Center. (2019, July 10). Affective engagement [Video file]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IdBno-4DpE
K20 Center. (2019, July 9). Behavioral engagement [video file]. YouTube. https://youtu.be/lsH2_Ufk8JI
K20 Center. (2019, July 9). Cognitive engagement [video file]. YouTube. https://youtu.be/JHNFhmYhzaE
K20 Center. (n.d.). Dividing the pie. Strategies. Retrieved from https://learn.k20center.ou.edu/strategy/1867
K20 Center. (n.d.). Double Bubble. Strategies. Retrieved from https://learn.k20center.ou.edu/strategy/3035
K20 Center. (2019, July 9). Emotional engagement [Video file]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RtHYJn-qwU
K20 Center. (n.d.). Fiction in the Facts. Strategies. Retrieved from https://learn.k20center.ou.edu/strategy/60
K20 Center. (n.d.). Fist to five. Strategies. Retrieved from https://learn.k20center.ou.edu/strategy/7b4de59085f566aa097814b8c0003b4a
K20 Center. (n.d.). Poms: point of most significance. Strategies. Retrieved fromhttps://learn.k20center.ou.edu/strategy/101???????