Methods of Instruction

By: Caitlin Cooksey, Amanda DAmico, Thomas Englehart, and Kristie Kosinski

Teaching Strategies
- Assignments, overhead, projects, group
work, direct instruction, homework, term
papers.
- Direct instruction was the majority
strategy used throughout middle school
and high school.

Differences in Instruction
- Elementary school: hands on learning, more group work
and interaction.
- Middle school: implementation of more direct
instruction, map work and beginning to understand
connections.
- High school: direct instruction, more use of technology
and computers to understand concepts.

What styles are most appealing?

- The teaching style we find most appealing
is group work especially when split by
content area, because we all have similar
backgrounds on the subject and can
collaborate to exchange ideas.

What qualities will we emulate?

- We intend to emulate teachers in regard
to the way the deliver lessons with the
incorporation of technology to keep the
class engaged.

Which styles will we avoid?

- Styles we would avoid would include
where the teacher is doing strict direct
instruction, such as the teacher rambling
facts for the students to copy.

Teacher consistencies
- From the beginning to the end of the
school year, the teaching methods
definitely go from strict to laid back
because teachers slack off towards the end
of the year.

As future teachers.
- As future teachers we hope to use direct instruction
incorporating technology is the best method to teaching,
along with group work and presentations to the the rest
of the class in order to keep the students engaged as well
as assessing their knowledge and portraying it to the
class.