Strategically Engaging our Students

What is Strategic Teaching?

• An method in which the instructor takes on the non-traditional role of mentor or coach, leaving the students to discover solutions for themselves.

• A process of purposefully planning instruction to include connected strategies, student engagement, gradual release of responsibility, and formative assessment.

• A process of building lessons, developing teaching materials, and varying your approach so that all students, regardless of where they are starting from, can learn content effectively, according to their needs.

• An ongoing teaching/learning cycle that ensures that all students learn and master Alabama’s Course of Study Standards and the associated concepts and skills.

Which of these are the correct components of Strategic Teaching?

• One or more daily outcome(s) based on state standards.

• Two everyday instructional practices

• Three parts to a purposeful lesson structure: using connected BEFORE, DURING, and AFTER literacy strategies.

• Four steps to explicit instruction: “I Do”, “We Do”, “Y’all Do”, “You Do” and Five components of active literacy: Talking, Writing, Investigating, Reading, Listening (TWIRL)

When do teachers teach strategically?

• Strategic teaching occurs before major assessments.

• Strategic teaching occurs only for core subjects.

• Strategic teaching occurs at least twice a week.

• Strategic teaching occurs in every classroom, everyday, throughout every lesson.

Which questions should strategic teachers ask themselves after every lesson?

• What were students able to do?

• Which students need additional instruction?

• Am I coming to work tomorrow?

• How will the next lesson be adjusted to meet their needs?

Select the statement(s) that are CORRECT.

• Strategic Teaching is just for reading and language arts classes.

• Strategic Teaching is best practices designed to increase student achievement in all content classes.

• Strategic Teaching is just for struggling readers.

• Strategic Teaching is for all students regardless of their academic abilities.

Select the "Before" Strategies

• ABC Brainstorm

• Anticipation Guide

• Preview/Predict

• Quick Write

Select the "During" Strategies

• Venn Diagram

• KWL

• Journal Response

• Frayer Model

Select the "After" Strategies.

• Journal Responses

• 3-2-1

• Quizizz

• Exit Slip

Active engagement is likely to increase student achievement.

• False

• True

As the teacher describes each section of a graphic organizer, students fill it in. They are quietly working on each section while the teacher circulates. This is an example of...

• active engagement

• compliance