INTEGRATING
INSTRUCTIONAL
STRATEGIES:
INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGY
LESSONS FOR EDUCATORS
SERIES (ISLES) 2
Elementary Education
Middle Grades Education
Special Education
Master of Arts in Teaching
Learning Objectives
By the end of this module
you will be able to:
• Identify instructions for
the teacher candidate
student
• Explain the grading
criteria
• Identify the enhanced
features
• Use at least 4 of the
instructional strategies
during the teaching of the
course using ISLES 2.
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New Faculty Orientation: ISLES 2
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Content of ISLES 2
Instructions
Delivery platform
Grading criteria and quiz
Faculty role
Clinical requirements
Technology requirements
Meeting educational needs: Essential
understandings
• Sample units
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Content of ISLES 2
Instructional
Strategy Lessons
for Educators
Series: Procedural
Knowledge Level
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Content of ISLES 1
Instructional Strategy Lessons for Educators
Series: Declarative Knowledge Level = ISLES 1
• Online module with 5 categories (islands)
• Each island contains definitions, key theorists,
key research, benefits, and examples of the
identified strategies.
• Focus of ISLES 1 is declarative understanding
of the strategies.
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What is contained within this
module?
• Five lessons or islands each containing:
– A review of the strategy definitions
– An introduction to general and differentiated
planning considerations when using the
strategies
– Lesson examples of the identified strategies
– Video snippets of the strategies
– Sample units incorporating the strategies
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What does ISLES 2 include?
The five islands represent the five categories
of
instructional
strategies
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Review:
Strategies within the categories
Organizers
Concept
Learning
Question and Grouping
Review
Graphic
organizers
Examples/
Nonexamples
Higher level
questions that
ask for
explanations
Think-Pair- Formative
Share,
assessment
Advance
organizers
Compare
and
contrast
Games
Jigsaw
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Assessment
Summative
assessment
Samples
from ISLES
2 modules
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An advance
organizer of
organizers
Graphic Organizers
WHAT
Visual teaching tools that
deepen thinking skills and
improve understanding of
content.
Advance Organizers
WHAT
Information that is presented
prior to learning to orient the
student to what will be taught.
WHEN
WHEN
Can be used at any point
during a lesson, as
appropriate.
Use when discussing prior
knowledge part of the lesson
and before presentation of new
content.
WHY
WHY
Engages students and
organizes learning for
retention and generalization
of information by visual
representations.
Makes students aware of what
will be happening in the
lesson at all times and
organizes the information.
HOW
There are many types of
graphic organizers.
HOW
There are multiple types
of advance organizers.
Exploration
In order to fully understand this island you need to complete the Concept
Learning Island of the first I.S.L.E.S. Module or review the information
within it. You can find the review here Concept Learning Review of
Declarative Knowledge Level Module
How to Select Strategies
Before selecting a strategy the teacher must make several other decisions,
e.g., what to teach, how to assess learning, etc. Click on this link to see a
list of 10 considerations a teacher must make before selecting an
appropriate instructional strategy: You may wish to print it for use during
your lesson planning.
Checklist for selecting instructional strategies
Take A Look
Step 1: Teacher poses a discussion topic or question
Step 2: Students think individually from 10 seconds to 5 minutes:
• What information is needed to solve the problem?
• What do I already know?
• What strategies and tools can I use?
• What are some questions for my partner?
Step 3: Talk about ideas with a partner for 2-3 minutes
Step 4: Share ideas with large group for 3-4 minutes
Think About – cont.
Rewrite each lower level question below as a higher level question.
Use the Instructional Rigor- Questions/Product Aligned with Revised
Bloom’s Taxonomy as your guide. Keep this in your notes.
Example: Who is your favorite character?
Rewritten as a Higher Order Question: How is your favorite
character most like you and most different from you?
1. What is a pentagon?
2. What is an example of a landform?
3. What would happen to vegetation in the event of an erupting
volcano?
4. Demonstrate the order of the coins if they were grouped in value
from least to greatest.
5. Can you list the names of the first five presidents?
6. How photosynthesis occur?
7. What is the purpose of the italicized word in the selection?
8. Describe the author’s perspective.
Lesson Plan Think About
Review the post-test of the TQP Science Unit on Forces and Motion at
the link below. Then read the unit objectives and essential questions in
the following screens.
Are the objectives and essential questions aligned with the
assessment?
Provide evidence to support your answer.
Select the link to read the middle grades post-test: MIDG Lesson
To access the full version of the this TQP Model Unit and other sample
units, click on the link below:
http://www.coe3.ecu.edu/Isles/Procedural/Units/
Lesson Plan Think About
Select the link to read a lesson from the TQP elementary language arts
unit ELEM ELA Lesson
• In what way did the teacher provide feedback to the student regarding
the student’s understanding of the topic and performance?
• What types of formative assessment strategies were used in this
lesson?
• Were the formative assessment strategies aligned with the lesson
objectives?
• Was enough time given so that students could complete formative
assessment activities? Why do you think so?
To access the full version of the this TQP Model Unit and other sample units,
click on the link below: http://www.coe3.ecu.edu/Isles/Procedural/Units/
Instructions
• Candidates
• Faculty
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ISLES 2
Student Instructions
About ISLES
What’s This?
• Learn about a common framework for instructional
practices that highlights ten evidence based strategies
for increasing student achievement.
• Explore the framework in your introduction courses,
methods courses, senior courses, and internship.
Understand it, explain it, see it, plan it, and do it!
• Experience the connections with Pitt County and Greene
County schools as their teachers incorporate a similar
framework.
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Take a Look
TQP Instructional
Practices
Organizers
Concept Learning
Question and
Review
Grouping
Assessment
organizers
Examples /Nonexamples
Higher level
questions that ask
for explanations
Think-Pair-Share
Formative
Advance
Organizers
Compare /
Contrast
Games
Jigsaw
Summative
Graphic
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• Complete an online series of Instructional Strategy
Lessons for Educator Series (ISLES) modules focusing
on the framework at every step. The islands within the
modules are designed using the Star Legacy Framework.
Hot Links
• Dig more deeply into the Star Legacy Framework and
why online modules were chosen. Click here:
IRIS Center:
http://iris.peabody.vanderbilt.edu/hpl/chalcycle.htm
Think About
• Consider how you will meet the needs of the diverse
children in your classroom. The ISLES modules will
prepare you to do just that, one semester at a time.
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Instructional Strategy Lessons
for Educators Series
(ISLES)
Overview
Research has shown that student achievement is directly tied to teacher
effectiveness. As a result, there is now a nationwide reform movement
to improve teacher effectiveness. As part of the reform movement the
Office of Innovation and Improvement in the United States Department
of Education awarded “Teacher Quality Partnership Grants” to teacher
education programs around the country. In the fall of 2009, the College
of Education at East Carolina University won one of the 28 Grants. With
the grant funds, ECU’s College of Education is reforming several areas
of its program: Recruitment, Curriculum, and Clinical Practice. ECU
partners, Pitt County Schools and Greene County Schools, are
reforming their induction programs as well.
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Overview – continued
The ISLES Module that you are about to complete is part of the
curriculum component of the reform. It is designed to teach you 10
particular instructional strategies. They are not the only strategies that
are effective or that a prospective teacher should learn to incorporate in
instruction. The 10 instructional strategies discussed in the module
constitute a starting place; over time you are expected to learn additional
effective instructional strategies. You will receive instruction on those
additional strategies from your professors. Also note that instructional
strategies are not the only means of raising student achievement. An
effective teacher must have good classroom management, an effective
curriculum, and appropriate professional dispositions. For now,
however, the curriculum reform is focusing primarily on effective
instructional strategies.
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Overview – continued
The goal of the declarative module (ISLES 1) was to teach you what the
strategies are. This module (ISLES 2) is at the procedural knowledge
level is designed to teach you how to incorporate the strategies into
lesson plans. You will complete the module for implementing these
strategies later in your program.
The following instructions will help you complete the module
successfully. Please read all of them carefully. Thank you for your
cooperation and good luck in your quest to become an effective teacher.
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Module Instructions Provided to the Students
Please read all of the instruction carefully before accessing the online
module.
1. The ISLES #2: Procedural Knowledge module is a required course
assignment embedded in your Blackboard (BB) course.
2. It is important that you try your best when completing it and treat it as
seriously as any other assignment in the course.
3. It is also imperative that you maintain the highest academic integrity
while completing it. Please do not discuss the assessment questions
or answers with anyone else until after everyone has completed it.
4. The module is comprised of 5 Islands (Organizers, Concept Learning,
Question & Review, Grouping, and Assessment). Two strategies from
each category are taught.
5. It should take you between 30 minutes and 1 hour to complete each of
the 5 islands.
6. Carefully plan when and where you complete the module. Select a
quiet comfortable location with enough time to complete a single
island.
7. You should also take notes while completing the islands.
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8. The ISLES module will be located in your course Blackboard site.
9. Once you access the site, you will see five presentations, each one
representing a different island of the module.
10. Begin with the Organizers island. Work through that presentation. If time
permits, continue on to the Concept Learning island from there. If you don’t
have time to do more than one island at a time, simply return to the website
when you are able to do so. Follow this procedure for each of the remaining
islands: Question & Review, Grouping, and Assessment. Be sure to complete
the islands in order; this is important since the content of an island builds
upon content in prior islands.
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11. Each island has the same 5-part structure: Mission, First Impressions,
Exploration, Assessment, and Review. In the Mission section, you learn
about a familiar problem or situation that teachers encounter in their
classrooms. From there you move to First Impressions where your prior
knowledge about the mission is activated. In the Exploration part of the
lesson you learn the lesson objective and the information about the
instructional strategies in that category. After exploring the topic, you will
assess your understanding in the Assessment part of the lesson using a
multiple-choice quiz. Finally, you will review what you learned in the Review
section with references and resources.
12. When taking the quiz in the Assessment section of the lesson, you must
answer each item to move forward and you cannot change your answer
once it has been submitted. Blackboard will record your grade for each
island and calculate your total grade for the module.
13. You are now ready to begin the ISLES #2 Module.
If you need technical assistance, submit a request to http://coehelp.ecu.edu
End of Student Instructions..
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The following guides are available as
links from
http://www.ecu.edu/educ/tqp
• ISLES – FAQ Faculty Instructions
• ISLES Faculty Guide
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Delivery
Platform
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How is this module delivered to my
class?
ISLES 2 is available as a Blackboard
Learning Module and will be distributed
by the Blackboard administrator prior to
the beginning of the semester.
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Grading
Criteria
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How are candidates assessed in
meeting the objectives of the
module?
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Included in the ISLES 2 course syllabus
Counts between 5%-10% of the overall course grade
Candidates visit each of the 5 islands (categories)
Candidates take a multiple choice question quiz in
Blackboard for each island (total of five quizzes).
• Grades are automatically computed in and recorded in the
grade book in Blackboard.
• Candidates return to ISLES 2 to complete the post-module
review and references.
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Faculty
Role
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What is my role in this course?
• All ELEM, MIDG, and SPED faculty are strongly
encouraged to review ISLES 2 to learn what the students
are expected to learn and do.
• Faculty members are responsible for requiring completion
of ISLES 2 as a part of course requirements.
• Faculty members are encouraged to utilize the eight
sample units found in the module.
– Created by teachers and ECU faculty
– Incorporates Common Core and Essential Standards
– Incorporates differentiation for English Language Learners,
Academically and Intellectually Gifted, Universal Design for
Learning, Literacy, and Technology.
– Content briefs developed by College of Arts and Sciences
faculty
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Clinical
Requirements
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Do the candidates have clinical
requirements?
There are no clinical requirements
associated with ISLES 2.
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Technology
Requirements
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What technology is needed by
the candidates?
In addition to Internet access, candidates will
need:
• access to Blackboard to view the files and
take the quizzes;
• Adobe Acrobat Reader to view the PDF files
• A program to view videos.
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Enhanced
Features
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Enhanced Features
• Addressing meeting the educational needs of all
learners:
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English Language Learners (ELL)
Academically and Intellectually Gifted (AIG)
Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
Literacy
Instructional Technology
• Planning Considerations checklists to assist in
utilizing the ISLES strategies
• Sample units in different subject/grade levels
highlighted. (Full units available at
http://www.coe3.ecu.edu/Isles/Procedural/Units )
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Strategies included in each Island
Specific Types of Strategy Applications Identified In Each Island
Organizers
Concept Learning
Question and Review
Grouping
Assessment
Circle, bubble, joining
bubbles or double
bubbles, tree, flow
chart, brace map, multiflow map
Example/Non-Example,
Compare/contrast
Question sequencing,
extending and lifting,
circular path, same
path
Games
Think-Pair-Share,
jigsaw
Three-minute conference,
goal setting chart, growth
conference, thumbs
up/thumbs down, 3-2-1,
Head, Heart, and Foot,
rubrics, descriptive and
evaluative feedback,
explicit feedback
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Planning Considerations for the Use of Organizers with Diverse
Learners
Links to what you need to know now.*
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Academically and Intellectually Gifted (AIG) Planning Checklist
English Language Learners (ELL) Planning Checklist
Instructional Technology (IT) Planning Checklist
Literacy (LIT) Planning Checklist
Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Planning Checklist
* Most students find it helpful to print these documents for use when
planning lessons.
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Summary
• Elementary education, middle grades
education, special education, and the
Master of Arts in Education programs are
incorporating the teaching and modeling
of instructional strategies.
• ISLES 2 is the procedural knowledge
level module.
• ISLES 2 modules include sample units
incorporating each instructional strategy.
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Resources
• ISLES Faculty Guide
http://www.ecu.edu/cseduc/TQP/upload/ISLESfacultyGUIDE2013-14.pdf
• TQP website http://www.ecu.edu/educ/tqp
• Public version of ISLES 2
http://www.coe3.ecu.edu/Isles/Procedural
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Resources - continued
• Elementary Education
http://www.ecu.edu/educ/emge/elem/
• Middle Grades Education
http://www.ecu.edu/educ/emge/midg/
• Special Education
http://www.ecu.edu/educ/sefr/sped/
• Professional Development Series for
ISLES
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THIS CONCLUDES
THIS MODULE ON
THE ISLES 2
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