Reflecting on Learning
Instructional Strategies
While changes in schools happen slowly, professional development for teachers is being transformed through technology. Gone are the prescribed agendas with approved district topics or mandates, replaced with teacher choice and voice. Teachers have been…
My approach this semester was to review these instructional strategies as they would best demonstrate, in my opinion, the possibility of proficient or distinguished designated within the components of domains 2 and 3 in Danielson’s…
How can a teacher foster student self-esteem? As educator’s we want our student to show growth in our content areas, and as students and people. Teachers have a direct effect on student’s growth as a…
How practical are multiple intelligence activities? Before I look at how practical these activities are, I first need to understand what is multiple intelligence? Then I can look and see what activities are considered multiple…
High School is one of the last steps before adulthood, and is one of the last “safe places” for young adults to learn the lesson’s they need to navigate the consequences of their choices. Some…
Does constructivism promote academic excellence? Constructivism absolutely leads to academic excellence because it requires that students are actively engaged in their own learning. In Classroom Instruction that Works, we read that this type of engagement…
Organizers of any kind, whether they are concept maps, flow charts or story maps, are a good way to assist students to connect foundation knowledge with current and new learning/concepts. What they also can do…
One of the classes I teach is AP Computer Science where students learn how to program in Java. My class is a University of Washington in the High School class and also articulated for credit…
Questioning can be an effective teaching strategy when we move beyond asking students to remember and involve higher level thinking skills, such as analysis, synthesis or evaluation. To be truly effective, questions should elicit prior…
Hello, My name is Shannon Thissen and this is my 22nd year in teaching, but only my 17th year teaching High School. I was in my senior year of my Computer Science degree when the…
