Pedagogical Skills and Teaching Strategies

Models

5Es
Engage generates interest and curiosity, hooks the student, raises
questions
Explore provides time for student and teacher to work together to make
discoveries
Explain asks for student to explain concepts in his/her own words about
what he/she was exploring, integrates new vocabulary
Elaborate discuss alternative situations, apply new concepts in different
situations
Evaluate How have you or will you assess? How does the student assess
his/her own learning and how will you know when the child got it?

Optimal Learning Model

Modeling hooks students onto a topic and gets them curious. The teacher
demonstrates a strategy relating to reading through showing the class stepby-step.
Shared Practice teacher clears up any confusion left over from the modeling
piece. The teacher actually makes an example of the strategy being taught.
Guided Practice class works together to make an example of the strategy.
The teacher asks clarifying questions in order to assure clear understanding.
Independent Practice student works individually to create his or her own
piece of the work to show the strategy. The teacher is still present to assist
with lingering questions.

Reading

Good angel/bad angel Students act out a characters decision by saying the
pros (good angel) and cons (bad angel) of the situation.

Read-aloud Teacher reads a text aloud in an active and engaging way. A great
way to provide background information, spark interest, or stimulate emotion on a
subject.

Graphic organizers:

KWL This is a chart divided up into three sections: Know, Want to know,
Learned. Before reading the Know and Want to know sections are completed, and
during or after reading the Learned section is completed.

Venn Diagram This is a graphic organizer that compares 2 topics. Information

relating to only one topic goes on the right, information that relates only to the
other topic goes on the left, and information that relates to both topics goes in
the overlapping middle section.

Timeline This is a visual organizer that orders information in chronological order

from left to right.

Skimming Quickly looking over a text that has already been thoroughly read in
order to refresh ones memory on the subject.

Social studies

Histo-pics Drawing stick figure drawings of a historical story as it is told.

ABC brainstorm Matching terms, phrases, or people relating to the topic with
each letter of the alphabet.

Report cards Making report cards for historical figures based on their actions
and morals.

Dramatic readings Acting out a historical scene by reading its story and having
students dress up and act it out.

8 facts on paper Have students cut a piece of paper with facts or pictures on it
into strips and rearrange the information into their prediction of the order and
guess who the facts are about.

Penguin formation Having the whole class stand in a shoulder-to-shoulder circle

in order to assure engagement by being able to see each students face.

Math strategies

Real-life problems Knowing my students is very important in creating problems

with context that they are able to understand and relate to.

Manipulatives Giving students hands-on materials to use when solving

problems; including, but not limited to: base-10 blocks, gear clocks, fraction
blocks, pattern blocks, unifix cubes, geoboards, 2-color counters, calculators,
random number generators, rulers.