Over the last semester I have used tons of instructional strategies. When I am struggling to think of something to do in my class, I look at my lists or charts of instructional strategies for some ideas. Most of them go really well, but some of them haven't. In the last two weeks I've used a chalk talk, goals, a human bar graph (this one was awesome), clear feedback, and a couple others from the list on Canvas. My goal is to make language arts suck a lot less than it did when I was in middle school.
It is super obvious when the students like an activity and when they hate it. in one of my classes, they pretty much hate everything, so I am not going to talk about them. One thing that I tried and I do not feel great about is modeling. I know it's supposed to be great and can really help students, but I have a hard time slowing down and really doing it correctly. I can feel the students' interest fading after a few minutes and I tend to rush through things. I modeled some annotations the other day and it clearly didn't go well. I went back over the students' work when I graded it and realized that a significant number of them didn't even write down the things that I wrote in my modeling. I thought that would be so easy for them, but I guess not. I think I need to slow down a bit more when i recognize that I'm starting to go too quickly through things like that. I'm bad about rushing through things that I think are probably boring even though they are important. I will certainly use modeling again, but I will take my time and really make sure the students are going at the same pace.
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