3-3 Instructional Strategies

The candidate understands and uses a variety of instructional strategies to encourage

learners to develop deep understanding of content areas and their connections, and to build
skills to apply knowledge in relevant ways.

As an educator is very important to understand that each student learns differently,

therefore teachers must be prepared with a variety of instructional strategies to make sure that
each student obtains the knowledge we are trying to teach them. The most common learning
styles of students are kinesthetic, visual, and auditory. In order to be effective in a classroom the
music teacher must use all three of these when presenting lessons.
Another more common teaching technique is modeling. Modeling is when the educator
demonstrates what he or she wants from the students by doing it correctly and multiple times.
The educator then asks the students to repeat in the exact same way what just happened and asks
them to deconstruct the process in which they should approach example.
Modeling allows for quicker instruction rather than speaking what should be done or
changed it shows them and allows them to listen for what needs to be corrected.
Another good technique is self-assessment or self-reflection. This allows the students to
process what they had just learned and re-iterate to the teacher in a way that they can articulate
back the information being given to them by the teacher. This works with all ages and all types
of music classrooms because it allows the students to use their own vocabulary, incorporated
with the teachers’ musical vocabulary, to show that they understood what the information was
trying to say.
In my teaching process, I hope to incorporate new instructional strategies including:
response, guided listening, peer assessment, as well as expanding on the learning strategies of
each student.