Instructional Strategies

• A Glossary of Instructional Strategies provided by PlasmaLink web services: 988 Instructional Strategies are listed in alphabetical order.

• Instructional Strategies that Teach A paper by David Merrill discussing what constitutes an instructional strategy.

• Classroom Tools Several links to free resources on ways to improve instruction, based on the Nine Essential Instructional Strategies by Robert Marzano, Debra Pickering, and Jane Pollock.

• Getting Acquainted with the Essential Nine a site discussing the Nine Essential Instructional Strategies written by Robert Marzano, Debra Pickering, and Jane Pollock.

• Teaching Tips: Marzano Classroom Instructional Strategies Information about each strategy with technology integration, implementation, plus examples.

• Useful Instructional Strategies for Literature-Based Instruction such as scaffolding of instruction, modeling, cooperative learning, student choices, self-initiated reading and writing, using different modes of reading, activation of prior knowledge, and student responses to literature.

• Instructional Strategies A list of helpful classroom instructional strategies.

• Instructional Strategies This site provides K-12 resources to learning styles, learning centers, curriculum design, preparation and positive climate, as well as inquiry-based learning, problem-based learning, project-based learning and brain compatible learning.

• Videoconferencing Instructional StrategiesA resource for using instructional strategies videoconferencing.

• Instructional Strategies for Online Courses to adjust for the different learning styles of the on-line learner.

• Effective Instructional StrategiesA site providing information on what effective instructional strategies are, and what are the strategies used in designing effective instruction.

• Focus on Effectiveness Thirty classroom examples on effective teaching and learning practices. Examples : Thinking Aloud, Imagining Change, Collaborative Writing, and Mapping Understanding.

• Classroom Instruction that Works Integrating Technology into the Classroom using Classroom Instruction that Works, transforming teaching through technology.

• Building Better Instruction: How Technology Can Support Nine Research-Proven Instructional Strategies An article addressed to teachers, teacher educators, technology coordinators and library media specialists working with K-12 students.

Teaching models

• Teaching Models classified by a three-tiered taxonomy along a continuum from instructor-directed, to student-instructor negotiated, to student-directed

• Teaching/Learning Models A site describing teaching and learning models, classifying them into four families: The Social Family, the Information Processing Family, The Personal Family, and The Behavioral Systems Family.

• Teaching Models A site provided by Simpson College with links to several teaching models covering a wide range of desired leaning outcomes. The teaching models are: problem-based learning, project-based learning, guided research, learning y design, inquiry or guided inquiry, modeling, simulation, role-playing, Socratic Questioning and Interaction, Graphic Organizers, Collaborative / Cooperative Learning, Synectics, Analogy, and Metaphor, Service-based Learning, Reciprocal Teaching.

• Good Models of Teaching with Technology A site describing good practices for good models of teaching and learning with technology in addition to samples and templates to guide teachers in the creation of their lessons.