Importance Of Educational Strategies In The Classroom

Today’s society is evidently concern with the educational gaps in our public schools and with the mediocre positioning of the country on an ongoing international competition. In recent years, we have seen the advocates of education’s attempts to reform our system by embracing the common core standards and by administrating standardized tests. This approaches had allowed us to measure progress, however, the path of success not only rely on the structure of the curriculum but also on a daily classroom instruction. Teachers bear upon their shoulders the responsibility of ensuring that all students have the same learning opportunities. Only by implementing effective classroom instruction the teacher are able to engage students in their learning process. In other to have a better insight into the importance of instructional strategies, I observed in a bilingual first-grade classroom at J.L Lyon elementary on November 3 and 4. The class is …show more content…
Moreover, I like the way the teacher cleverly uses an interesting short story as the starting point of the lesson. Also, I admire the instructor’s effort to incorporate technology in the class and her attempt to familiarize students with it. In my future classroom, I will ensure that my lessons are interactive, relevant and interesting. I think that so far, I have a considerable amount of instructional tools such as socrative, neardpod, kahoot! and emaze. All these can make my presentations, lessons, worksheets, notecards, and games more appealing for students. Throughout my previous educational years, I have seen teachers relying so heavenly on PowerPoints that at some point the students stopped paying attention. I believe that as future teachers we would how to somehow reinvent education by trying new ways of waking our children’s curiosity and