Indicator

IV.B.1

Teaching and learning activities are appropriate for the complexity of the learning context.

 

 

Definition(s) and/or Explanation(s)

Learning activities include both teaching methods and learning tasks

Methods:

  • are the procedures and techniques used by the teacher to enhance learning

  • include other elements of the teacher’s role in enhancing learning such as monitoring and providing feedback to learners as they work in small groups, checking learners’ works, etc.

Learning tasks:

  • are activities in which learners are involved that broaden their understandings of content, topics, ideas and/or the integration/coordination of skills

Classroom Examples

Elementary

  1. Learners in a fourth-grade language arts class work in a cooperative group setting to dramatize a short story covered in class.

  2. In order for learners to participate in a scientific investigation, the teacher divides the learners into small groups.

Secondary

  1. Learners in a middle school ESOL I class follow simple oral directions to complete a task.

  2. In an honors English IV class, the learner reads and critiques classic and contemporary British literature.

New

Elementary/Secondary

In a physical education class learners engage in practice of skills required for playing basketball. Activities include dribbling, passing, moving and shooting.

Secondary

During a home economics family consumer’s class, learners are involved in creating well balanced nutritious dinners. Working in small groups, they look at magazines and discuss personal favorites to compile one meal to present to the class. The teacher assists each group to check for nutritional value.

 

 

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