Category: Instructional Strategies

      CourseworkInstructional StrategiesITL528 Single Subject Integrated Design IINational UniversityStudent Engagement and SupportSystems of Linear Equations

      Teach, Assess, Analyze, Respond

      What do we want students to know and be able to do? How will we know if they know the content and can demonstrate the skills? How will we respond if they understand it and how will we respond if they don’t? How do we ensure that our instruction and assessments are engaging, equitable, and accessible for all? These core questions have been at the forefront of planning and developing our Learning Map Lesson in ITL526 and our week-long planning for this course. While we can have a plan and a roadmap for addressing those questions, we won’t know the...
      Frank Jamison
      Assessment and EvaluationCourseworkInstructional StrategiesITL528 Single Subject Integrated Design IINational UniversityStudent-Centered Learning

      Knowing Your Learners

      It may go without saying, but it is worth emphasizing regularly that the students we teach are people: people with diverse backgrounds, experiences, identities, capabilities, interests, challenges, and limitations. And at the secondary level especially, students develop and express themselves in real-time as we teach them. As we learned in the discussion this week, when we take deliberate action to understand, value, and build upon our students’ unique attributes, we create an environment that is more conducive to learning. It also gives us the ability to know what students need so we can meet students where they are in their...
      Frank Jamison
      Assessment and FeedbackCourseworkInstructional StrategiesITL522 Content Area LiteracyLanguage DevelopmentNational University

      Learning Map – Stage 4 Apply

      Essential Question How will you apply what you learned in the instructional cycle (citing evidence from Stages 1-3 about student learning, extending student understanding of content, and development of academic language) to determine next steps for instruction? Describe what you have learned to inform future instruction for students that is designed to strengthen and extend deep content learning and academic language development for all students.  Reflecting on my recent teaching experience, I’ve gained valuable insights that will significantly shape my future instructional strategies. These insights focus on strengthening and extending deep content learning and academic language development for all students,...
      Frank Jamison
      CourseworkEducational AssessmentInstructional StrategiesITL520 Academic Language & LiteracyNational UniversityTeacher Development

      Learning Map Stage 4: Apply

      This week we are reflecting! By now, we have carried out our lesson to a group of students and have some time to reflect on how it went and the data we were able to collect. We are thinking about the evidence we collected from the learning experiences we designed. Were there students who grasped the concepts and applied their knowledge successfully? Were there students who grasped the concepts but did not apply their knowledge successfully? Were there students who had trouble grasping the initial content and literacy concepts? The essential question to focus on in Stage 4 is “How...
      Frank Jamison