Direct Instruction

Literature Review Sheltered Instruction (SI) Overview/Background Sheltered Instruction, or SI, was first developed as SIOP, or the Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol by Jana Echevarria, Deborah Short, and Mary Ellen Vogt and has been researched, analyzed, and changed to meet the needs of ELL students since 1995. It was an instrument used by researchers to determine how well teachers were implementing the features of sheltered instruction, SI, into their lessons. This became the known as…

participate in a more inclusive classroom. Indeed, I found the current educational setting was not appropriate for Mike to fulfill his full educational potential. For example, I found Mike to be attentive to teacher instruction, but he did not appear to be a challenged by the instruction. In my observations of Mike during small group and independent time, Mike behaved appropriately and was attentive to his surroundings. Compared to Mike, I found other students to lack both physical and common…

Stock Characters Stock characters are people who are stereotypical and are easily recognized by the audiences due to their many recurrences in particular traditional literary. They are not individuals but types based on social prejudices and clichés. They are mostly comfortable aims for parody. In the anonymous Everyman play, the stock characters are kindred, cousins, Fellowship, discretion, and beauty. These characters are portrayed as giving moralistic advice to the main protagonist. They are…

creatively detailed. There was a total of three teachers and five students. Within this classroom did observe both small and large group instruction. The large group instruction was given…

1. Provide a summary for the video (minimum 100 words). The Direct Instruction Approach that was shown in this video emphasizes rote learning, repetition, and the entire class participating. As a teacher would tap on a board or table, the entire classroom of students would read out loud what the teacher was pointing at. Because of this repetition, children learn from their peers, especially when it comes to sounding out words and sentences. The teachers interviewed were specifically trained…

Weak Curriculum vs. Inadequate Instruction Education is of no value to students if a weak curriculum and an adequate instruction is the foundation of a school. In order to achieve a school of higher-level learning students, it is imperative that an adequate curriculum is designed in which students are being challenged with academic rigor and receiving effective feedback from the teachers. The evolution of education has made teachers change the manner in which they instruct students, and…

Introduction The central theme of clinical supervision is designed for the supervisor to provide nonjudgmental assistance directed at improving the teacher’s instruction (Glickman, 2014, p. 250). In the book “Supervision and Instructional Leadership” Carl D. Glickman (2014) states that clinical supervision actually includes but goes beyond formative evaluation by helping teachers to design and implement an action plan to meet instructional improvement goals (p. 250). However, clinical…

ADHD who needed special instructions in order to stay focused. In both classrooms, I witnessed both educators accommodate and modify instruction to suit the needs of each child within the classroom. Over the last few weeks, each child grew academically or gained a strategy to use when working on a task or assignment. In both classrooms it was apparent how patient the teachers were with the students who had special needs. They took the time to specially explain the instruction by using…

Question 2 Direct Instruction and Discovery Learning have similarities and differences, and some teachers may choose to combine the two methods in the classroom while others may prefer one over the other. Both methods have advantages,disadvantages and similarities. Both methods can be modified to adapt to diverse learners such as English language learners or learners with specific learning disabilities. The main topic is not to find out which learning method is better, but rather to compare…

to help me to reflect on myself as an educator. While there were many strengths from this unit, there was also some areas of growth that could have made the unit even more successful. One major strength from this unit was the differentiation of instruction and assessments. An area of growth for this unit would be to create a stronger behavior management system in order to make the time dedicated to math each day more valuable. A goal for improving teaching practice is finding a way to…