Reflection Paper about standard-based instruction

As what I’ve understand in In order to ensure that the student is given clear

and precise instructions, it becomes necessary to align instruction with standards.

Standards ensure better accountability holding teachers and schools responsible for

what goes on in the classrooms.  The practice of aligning learning to standards also

helps ensure that a higher level of learning is attained, guides teachers in the

process of assessment and helps keep them on track.

Standards based instruction helps guide the planning, implementation, and

assessment of student learning. The use of standards to streamline instruction

ensures that teaching practices deliberately focus on agreed upon learning targets.

Expectations for student learning are mapped out with each prescribed standard.

Teachers follow standards based instruction to ensure that their students

meet the demands targeted. Following a standards-based model for classroom

assessment and instruction is an approach teachers use to track student

performance and plan focused instruction to meet the specific needs of students.

Reflection Paper about Modelling

Modeling is an instructional strategy in which the teacher demonstrates a

new concept or approach to learning and students learn by observing. Modeling

describes the process of learning or acquiring new information, skills, or behavior

through observation, rather than through direct experience or trial-and-error efforts.

Learning is viewed as a function of observation, rather than direct experience.

Research has showed that modeling is an effective instructional strategy in that it

allows students to observe the teacher’s thought processes. Using this type of

instruction, teachers engage students in imitation of particular behaviors that

encourage learning. Learning would be exceedingly laborious, not to mention

hazardous, if people had to rely solely on the effects of their own actions to inform

them on what to do. Fortunately, most human behavior is learned observationally

through modeling: from observing others, one forms an idea of how new behaviors

are performed, and on later occasions this coded information serves as a guide for

action. Modeling can be used across disciplines and in all grade and ability level

classrooms.