Instructional Strategies

"Only teachers who utilize a variety of instructional models will be successful in maximizing the achievement of all students. Teachers need to "play" to student strengths and to mitigate students' learning weaknesses," - Thomas J. Lasley & Thomas J. Matczynski; Strategies for Teaching in a Diverse Society.

Click on the picture for each instructional strategy to learn more about this valuable tool and resource!

Tiered Activities

Useful when a teacher wants to ensure that students with different degrees of learning proficiency work with the same essential ideas and use the same key knowledge and skills.

Stations

Stations are different spots in the room where students work on various tasks simultaneously.

Agendas

A personalized list of tasks that a particular student must complete in specified time.

Complex Instruction

Strategy that responds to the sorts of academic ranges that frequently exist in classrooms that are academically, culturally, and linguistically heterogeneous.

Orbital Studies

Chris Stevenson (1992, 1997) suggests orbital studies as an ideal way to address both commonalities and differences among middle-level learners.

Centers

Flexible enough to address variable learning needs.

Entry Points

Strategy for addressing varied intelligence preferences.

Tri-Mind

Based on the work of Robert Sternberg (1985, 1988, 1997) who proposes 3 "intelligences" or modes of processing that all functional human beings possesses and uses in daily life.

RAFTs

An instructional strategy that targets assignments for students that are focused on role, audience, format, and topic.