Instructional Strategies

Pre-reading activities for older students? Implementing them may take time, but they will benefit students in the long run.

Guided reading is not just for elementary teachers! Using guided reading in high school is a great way to scaffold instruction! #mooreenglish

Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs: First came the Ancient Egyptian Pyramids of Giza, but then in 1943, the most famous pyramid of them all was BORN! Humanistic psychologist, Abraham Maslow published, "A Theory of Human Motivation," describing five stages of growth in humans, and most commonly presented as...

Pacing your lesson plans can be tricky, but it can also create a more positive classroom environment. Here are our best practices.

If you’re new to eLearning, then understanding and implementing the best Instructional Design Models from the beginning is crucial to your success.

Cooperative learning takes the teacher off the stage and allows students to learn from one another by working through cooperative learning strategies to reach a common goal. This positive interdependence allows students to hold one another accountable for sharing the workload and learning.

Nothing cements long-term learning as powerfully as retrieval practice. Learn how to incorporate it into your classroom.

Learning is lifelong and students need support as they gather knowledge and skills. This can be done through scaffolding instruction. There were times in my earlier years of teaching that I didn’t use scaffolding in my instruction. I struggled to make sure all of my students were learning and understanding specific concepts and skills in...

In this blog post, we’ll look at how to effectively scaffold your instruction and help students build increasingly sophisticated skills. We’ll also look at how you can help foster growth and independence through scaffolding. Scaffolding and Differentiating The methodology behind scaffolding is multi-faceted. Scaffolding can mean providing support and then removing it slowly. It...

Calling Classroom Audible is part of instructional adjustment and making sure classroom instruction and lesson planning meets the needs of your students, classroom, and the current climate. To pretend that current events do not affect the classroom is to ignore the fact that teaching is political. Here are options and reasons and ideas for adjusting curricular scaffolding. #mooreenglish @moore-english.com

Close reading and annotation are part of critical thinking in the classroom. These strategies work for any content but are especially important for English, reading, writing, and literature classes. Using these reading strategies, students can take charge of a text and their interpretation of the text. With these skills, students can analyze an author's purpose, main idea, tone, and use of language. In this post, learn the DO's and DON'Ts of assessing close reading.

Self-efficacy will help students in all the areas of academic achievement. Students with higher degrees of self-efficacy are better equipped to handle and respond to trauma and their social-emotional needs. A higher degree of self-efficacy positions students to meet and exceed the benchmarks in state standards and learning targets. Finally, a higher degree of self-efficacy prepares students to climb up Maslow's hierarchy and up Bloom's taxonomy.

086: Take Action for Deeper Learning, with Sarah Fine - Spark Creativity

Bloom's Taxonomy explained-this helped!

Using the Gallery Walk instructional strategy to teach important classroom routines & structures Teaching Duration: 1-3 class periods What is a GALLERY WALK? A gallery walk is a kinesthetic strategy that help students learn information. It closely resembles the idea of a jig

Not all high school English curricula include literary criticism. For this reason, it can be hard to find high-qaulity resources for teaching lit crit in secondary English. With this in mind, I've put together a collection of 40 poems, dramas, novels, short stories, essays, articles, and informational texts to use with literary criticism. This collection covers the major schools of literary theory, including biographical criticism, formalism, New Criticism, Marxism, feminist theory…