Structures &Strategies
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Teachers use instructional structures to organize how learning happens and instructional strategies to help students process, practice, and apply what they are learning.
In this activity, you’ll sort examples into the correct category, then think about how a structure and strategy can work together in a lesson.
Sort each item into the appropriate category.
Instructional Strategy
Instructional Structure
Build a Better Lesson Move
Which pairing best supports this objective?
Whole-Class Instruction + Sticky Note Notation The teacher presents information while students mark important details in their notes.
Mr. Lee is planning a 7th grade social studies lesson on how different geographic features influenced the development of early civilizations. Students need to identify key features, explain their effects, and compare patterns across civilizations.
Gallery Walk + Compare & Contrast Student groups examine visuals and short descriptions of different civilizations, then compare how geography shaped each one.
Conferencing + Guess and Check The teacher meets with students individually while they try different answers until they find the correct one.
This pairing could help students track important information, but it does not give them enough opportunity to compare patterns across multiple civilizations.
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This is the strongest pairing because the gallery walk lets students examine multiple civilizations, while compare and contrast helps them analyze how geography influenced each one.
Finish
This pairing is less effective because individual conferencing and guess-and-check do not directly support students in analyzing geographic patterns across civilizations.
TRY AGAIN
Nice work!
Instructional structures and strategies work together to support effective learning. As you plan instruction, consider how the lesson is organized and how students will actively process, practice, and apply what they are learning.
Quick Review
Intructional Structures
- How the lesson is organized
- Often a teacher-selected setup
Intructional Strategies
- How students think through or work with the content
- Often a student-facing learning process
Quick Review
Intructional Structures
- How the lesson is organized
- Often a teacher-selected setup
Intructional Strategies
- How students think through or work with the content
- Often a student-facing learning process
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Structures &Strategies
Choosing the Right Tool
Get started
Teachers use instructional structures to organize how learning happens and instructional strategies to help students process, practice, and apply what they are learning.
In this activity, you’ll sort examples into the correct category, then think about how a structure and strategy can work together in a lesson.
Sort each item into the appropriate category.
Instructional Strategy
Instructional Structure
Build a Better Lesson Move
Which pairing best supports this objective?
Whole-Class Instruction + Sticky Note Notation The teacher presents information while students mark important details in their notes.
Mr. Lee is planning a 7th grade social studies lesson on how different geographic features influenced the development of early civilizations. Students need to identify key features, explain their effects, and compare patterns across civilizations.
Gallery Walk + Compare & Contrast Student groups examine visuals and short descriptions of different civilizations, then compare how geography shaped each one.
Conferencing + Guess and Check The teacher meets with students individually while they try different answers until they find the correct one.
This pairing could help students track important information, but it does not give them enough opportunity to compare patterns across multiple civilizations.
TRY AGAIN
This is the strongest pairing because the gallery walk lets students examine multiple civilizations, while compare and contrast helps them analyze how geography influenced each one.
Finish
This pairing is less effective because individual conferencing and guess-and-check do not directly support students in analyzing geographic patterns across civilizations.
TRY AGAIN
Nice work!
Instructional structures and strategies work together to support effective learning. As you plan instruction, consider how the lesson is organized and how students will actively process, practice, and apply what they are learning.
Quick Review
Intructional Structures
Intructional Strategies
Quick Review
Intructional Structures
Intructional Strategies