Teaching Goal

Classroom organization:
Classroom Environment
Draw or describe room arrangement
Sketch bulletin board ideas
Class motto
Classroom Operation Rules

Routines and procedures:
Consequences:
Incentives:
Cues:

Lessons
Instructional Strategies:
Individualized instructional strategies:
Questioning strategies:
Examples of questions:

Respons to students
When a student gives a correct answer
When a student gives a partially correct answer
When a student gives an incorrect answer

Student self-evaluation opportunities

Effective Teaching Practices
Building positive relationships
Between teacher and students:
Among classmates:
With parents:

Strategies to develop student social skills
Strategies to develop student problem solving and decision
Strategies to develop student self-control
Preventive discipline strategies
Classroom technology plan

Grading plan
Recording grades in the grade book
Homework policy
Progress reports

Instructional Strategies
1. Creating the Right Classroom Climate
2. Your Classroom Plan
3. Organizing your Classroom
4. Developing Routines and Procedures
5. Assigning and Managing Work Assignments
6. Preparing for Instruction
7. Managing Behavior
8. Keeping it all Going
The first instructional strategies would be creating the right classroom climate. This is to assure that your
students feel safe, secure and are engaged with their own learning. Learning decreases when students
feel threatened or unchallenged (Marzano, et al, 1992). Have discussions with your students on how to
maintain the right climate for your classroom. Have them help formulate the way they want the classroom
to run and they will help your enforce everyones expectations.

The second instructional strategy would be your classroom plan. This will help you foster student
involvement and cooperation in your classroom activities and will help establish a productive working
environment. To establish a productive working environment you need to make your room stimulating and
inviting. Classroom displays and arrangements must be functional and inviting. Your students will be
more than happy to be in on the decision making process of how to make your classroom learner friendly.

The third instructional strategy would involve organizing your classroom. You will need to create room
arrangements that allow for activities that require movement. Stations or centers can be created for long-
term learning and involvement. These stations can be placed so that your students can easily find
information, use computers, and access other technologies that would help with their learning.

The next instructional strategy involves developing routines and procedures. You will need to create a
limited number of rules that are clear, specific, and stated in a positive manner. Always involve your
students in the process of developing, understanding, and maintaining the routines and procedures. You
will also need to practice and reinforce these routines and procedures throughout the school year.

The fifth instructional strategy would be assigning and managing work assignments. As a master teacher
you need to provide meaningful and relevant assignments. Involve your students in real world scenarios
that have a purpose. You will be amazed with your students abilities when they have an assignment that
involves an audience and a real world purpose.

The next instructional strategy involves preparing for instruction. When your students are actively involved
in their learning discipline problem will decrease. Keep your students involved in the planning and
preparation of the units of studies. Make them a part of your on going planning, implementation, and
evaluation of units of study. Could your students compose a real proposal that could be submitted to a
corporation, city council, or organization that needs fresh ideas.

The sixth instructional strategy is discussing behavior in the classroom. Always communicate and
reinforce class routines and procedures. Have your students enforce these and have classroom
discussion on procedures that need to be added, deleted, or edited. You will be surprised how well your
classroom will function when the students have a voice.

The last instructional strategy is to keep your classroom running smoothly throughout the school year.
Always reflect and evaluate each day or week during the school year. Do not settle for less than your
students best efforts. Always celebrate success!!!!!

These seven instructional strategies will help you become a successful teacher that students will
remember forever. This will also help your students become lifelong learners.

Student Self Evaluation Opportunities
In order to become lifelong learners, students need to learn the importance of self-evaluation.
They can do this by filling out self-evaluation forms, journalizing, taking tests, writing revisions
of work, asking questions, and through discussions. When students evaluate themselves, they are
assessing what they know, do not know, and what they would like to know. They begin to
recognize their own strengths and weaknesses. They become more familiar with their own
beliefs, and possibly their misconceptions. After they self-evaluate they will be able to set goals
that they feel they can attain with the new knowledge they have about themselves.
Teachers should encourage self-evaluation because self-assessment makes the students active
participants in their education (Sloan, 1996). There are a variety of ways for teachers to provide
the students with self-assessments. Research suggests that the simplest tools to encourage student
self-assessment are evaluative questions that force students to think about their work (Hart,
1999). Some examples of these questions include the following:
1. How much time and effort did you put into this?
2. What do you think your strengths and weaknesses were in this assignment?
3. How could you improve your assignment?
4. What are the most valuable things you learned from this assignment?
It is important for teachers to model self-assessment too. Teachers need to show their students
that it is important for everybody to self-evaluate by doing their own self-evaluations. One thing
teachers can do is to ask their students for feedback on how the class is going and what the
teacher is doing well and not so well. In this way the teacher is showing that they want to make
improvements where needed. Teachers could put up a suggestion box, and they can hand out
evaluation forms at different times of the year. This shows the students that continuous
improvement is important.