Instructional Strategies

Unit Objective: Students will develop an instructional website.

Assessment: A rubric will be applied to assess the website created by the student that will consider instructional quality, overall design, and functionality.

Instructional Strategies:

1. Non-examples
A technique used in direct instruction to help students distinguish between similar concepts. [to make clear what an INSTRUCTIONAL website is]


2. Six Thinking Hats
A metacognitive strategy that encourages people to look at concepts from different perspectives. Each hat represents a mode of thinking. The white hat = look at data, red = feelings, black = judgment, yellow = positive attitude, green = creativity, blue = overview. [groups of students will cooperatively compare the quality of currently online instructional websites]

3. Demonstration [to show students how to click the buttons to make the website]


4. Active Learning
Any approach that engages learners by matching instruction to the learner's interests, understanding, and developmental level. Often includes hands-on and authentic activities. [students build a website that they would actually expect to use in their classroom]

5. Microteaching
A form of practice teaching in which the student prepares a short (6-15 minute) lesson and presents the lesson to peers for constructive evaluation.
Introduction to Microteaching [students will demonstrate their website]]

6. Closure
Any activities which help students summarize key points learned and how the new knowledge relates to the objectives to be learned. [students will reflect on their own as well as other students’ websites]