Christian Ward

ETEC 424
Blog Activity #2

I think it is very important to make sure that learners are motivated. I think the best ways
to ensure that students are actively engaged and motivated are by ensuring that you have a good
relationship with the students in your class, you create a sense of high expectations, and you
personalizing your curriculum because not every student learns the same.

I’ve read about so many ways to identify that students are or aren’t getting the
curriculum. My ALL-TIME favorite so far that I’ve read about is a school implementing a
reteach/enrich program. At the end of the week students are assessed on the material, and
students that have mastered it are put into the enrich program and become the teachers to the
students placed in the enrich program the following week. Students learn so much from their
peers. I think this is the best idea ever.

Allowing the students to become the teacher during the lesson is a great way to let the
students know they’ve mastered the content. It’s a reward to them and allowing them to teach to
students that haven’t grasped the content lets them know that they have mastered the content
enough to teach other students the content.

Learning, A. (2014, June 3). 4 Ways to Engage and Motivate Students for Success. In Apex
Learning. Retrieved from https://www.apexlearning.com/blog/4-ways-engage-and-
motivate-students-success
Nobori, M. (2011, August 29). 5 Strategies to Ensure Student Learning. In edutopia. Retrieved
from https://www.edutopia.org/stw-differentiated-instruction-budget-assessment-how-to

Field of Study- English/Language Arts

Strategy Description Teacher Learner

Visualization Visualization is the Teacher will Students will take

act of bringing a incorporate videos, notes on the audio
lesson to life. It helps photos, and audio clips, videos,
students to clips in the lesson and experiments and field
understand how the encourage the trips. They can be
lesson applies to real students with quizzed after lessons
life. experiments and field and experiments.
trips.

Cooperative Learning Cooperative learning Teacher will do a Students will

is when you mix learning assessment converse amongst
students with to assess the students their preselected
different abilities strengths and groups to finish a
together with small different learning presentation. At the
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ETEC 424
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group activities. It abilities. end of the

will help enhance presentation, students
their communication will fill out a group
and critical thinking evaluation so that I
skills. can be sure that each
member participated
equally.

Inquiry-Based Inquiry-based Teacher can have Students can create

Instruction learning strategies are higher order thinking questions to
used to help students questions involved in investigate how to
learn by requiring the lesson to help come to an answer for
them to ask questions, students generate the higher order
investigating, and more questions and question. It gives
reporting what they investigate the things students the chance to
find. they don’t know. express their unique
views on things.

Graphic Organizer Graphic organizers The teacher will Students will take
help students to provide copies of notes on whatever
organize their different graphic graphic organizer
thoughts in a visual organizers (venn they feel the most
way. They can be diagram, concept comfortable with. It
used for any lesson. map, T Chart, etc) so will help them to
that the student can organize their
use whichever they thoughts and help
feel more comfortable them brainstorm.
using.

Technology in the Technology is an Teachers can create Students will be

Classroom awesome way to help web-based lesson engaged in the
students stay plans, incorporate technology based
connected in the apps like kahoot into lesson with a mobile
lesson. It has been lessons, virtual field device that they can
found to keep trips, online research, take notes, pictures,
students motivated or class websites. and videos on for
and engaged longer. them to use at a later
time for studying.

7 Effective Teaching Strategies for the Classroom (2018, February 23). In Quizalize. Retrieved

from https://www.quizalize.com/blog/2018/02/23/teaching-strategies/

Cox, J. (n.d.). Top 5 Teaching Strategies. In TeachHub.com. Retrieved from

https://www.teachhub.com/top-5-teaching-strategies