Challenge 1 - Guided Practice

Tuesday, 15 August 2023

3:18 pm

Which of the 11 Core Strategies you will be addressing: Guided practice

Run through the five A|D|A|P|T Elements and attempt to apply them to your context.

Record your understanding here giving examples from your practice.

Element Challenge reflections examples from your Tips

practice
You might do this
as a mental
I attempt guided practice by brainstorming a Instructional
concept prior to beginning instruction in order to Strategy
collect information about students' prior WalkThru
knowledge and create a reference point for process; you might
students. try it out in a real
classroom context
I then explicitly teach and model the concept, to establish
checking for student understanding by cold whether
calling. We then complete guided practice - the steps make
working through examples of the concept as a sense.
class. I extended guided practice by asking the
students to explain back to me what to do, while
still completing the task as a whole class.

When the students are ready they then move

onto independent practice. Those students who
are not ready to move on yet will stay on the
floor with me and continue guided practice.
Add additional
details to the steps
I can develop my guided practice by connecting so that they are
topics to students prior knowledge more. For more fine-grained:
example, going back over multiplication if
students are not understanding division. Building more precise and
on students' foundation to ensure optimal more detailed
understanding and success. — in relation to
your subject
content or the
make-up of a
specific class.
I can adapt this strategy depending on the needs Change the
of the students in my class. I will use a variety of Instructional
teaching strategies to accommodate all learners, Strategy WalkThru
including extension and extra support for so that it works
students who need consolidation. This can better for you.
involve extra tasks in class, one on one support, Change the order;
concrete materials, instructional videos and spend longer on
activities sent home for consolidation. certain steps than
others; create
more loops back
to the beginning;
link to other
strategies more
directly.
Setting up a good routine and practicing the Put your adapted
strategy so that it becomes a part of my WalkThru into
everyday pedagogy. action.
If you are going to
embed it into your
routine practice,
you will need to
practise the steps,
evaluating their
success as you
go.
I will test the strategy by measuring the success To evaluate your
rate of student success in the classroom. I will impact you may
check for understanding by gathering data gain
through formative and summative assessment, insights from your
questioning students, gathering student and subjective sense
parent feedback, and working one on one with of how things feel.
students. For a more
rigorous analysis
you will also need
to test it in a
systematic,
objective manner.
The quality of
student work?
Outcomes of
assessments?