Instructional delivery provides opportunities for students to engage in active learning. Using students’ previous educational experiences, numerous teaching techniques and technology are strong strategies to check for understanding. Instructional delivery is crucial to the students’ learning because the students will learn only through effective delivery. A teacher demonstrates instructional delivery by differentiating instruction to reach all students inside the classroom, incorporating active learning and through the use of technology.
Differentiation instruction isn’t a tool to use sometimes it’s a thought process when developing a lesson. Not every student is going to learn the same way or learn at the same pace. For example, during math rotations the groups inside the classroom were broken down by ability. While each group completed the same work, the groups varied in the amount of instruction. The highest group only needed a few guided practice problems and then they were able to complete the material on their own. While the lowest group had more guided and modeled practice and less independent. Even within a group students’ ability can vary.
The multiple intelligence theory furthermore provides a reason as to why differentiation is as important as it is. These theory explores the ideas that not all students have the same understanding of a subject and through best through different methods.
The photos above are students using different colored blocks to practice creating patterns. Students selected a pattern card and used the blocks to demonstrate that pattern. Students had the option of working with a partner or individually. Allowing students to physically create the patterns is an example of active learning. Active learning is the process of students working hands on and engaged within the lesson.
Technology is an amazing resource to have inside the classroom, especially with technology playing such a large role within our lives. The classroom I worked in at Penn Forest had an Active Board and an Elmo. These tools allowed students to interact with the lessons and opened up an endless supply of resources. My personal favorite was Go Noodle. Go Noodle is a site with interactive videos. It allows students to get up, dance and sing along to a video.
Below is my paper for the instructional delivery standard.