Instruction
Aligned instruction comprises the following activities:
- Teaching topics that are aligned with the standards.
- Ensuring the right level of challenge.
- Focusing teaching based on the learning needs of each student.
- Implementing instructional strategies to increase student achievement.
To view an effective instructional strategy, click on one of the video categories or a video or document title within each category.
Instructional Strategies Documents
- Secondary Response to Instruction and Intervention (RtII): Tier 1 Core Instruction
- Cycle of Effective Instruction Graphic
- Random Reporter
- Think Pair Share
- Zero Noise
- Instruction Depth of Knowledge
Related Instructional Resources
- The Office of English Language Acquisition and Academic Achievement for Limited English Proficient Students
- WIDA Consortium
- National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition & Language Instructional Programs
- Center On Instruction
- Quality Teaching for English Language Learners - WestEd
- Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages TESOL
- Center for Applied Linguistics
Science Videos
- Science 1 - Elementary School: Force & Motion Intro.
- Science 2 - Elementary School:Force & Motion: Cause and Effect
- Science 3 - Elementary School : Force & Motion: Hands on learning
- Science 4 - Elementary School: Force & Motion: Formative Assessment
- Science 1 - Middle School : Moon Features and Vocabulary
- Science 2 - Middle School : Moon Features vs. Earth Features
- Science 3 - Middle School: Asteroid speed lab
- Science 4 - Middle School: Asteroid speed: Formative Assessment
- Science 1 - High School: Stoichiometry Intro
- Science 2 - High School: Stoichiometry Lesson: Text Rendering
- Science 3 - High School: "What is a Mole?" Intro Lab
- Science 4 - High School: Molar Mass
Social Studies Videos
- Social Studies 1 - Elementary School : "The Lost Colony" Intro
- Social Studies 2 - Elementary School: The Lost Colony: Text books vs. Historical fiction & Gathering Info
- Social Studies 3 - Elementary School: Early Colonies: Literature Circles
- Social Studies 4 - Elementary School: Early Colonies: Gaining content from multiple sources
- Social Studies 1 - Middle School : Incas & Mayans in Review
- Social Studies 2 - Middle School: "Cortes' Song"
- Social Studies 3 - Middle School: Mayans/Incas Writing Prompt
- Social Studies 4 - Middle School: Mayans & Incas: Formative Assessment
- Social Studies 1 - High School: Technology Intro
- Social Studies 2 - High School: Early American Innovation
- Social Studies 3 - High School : Early American Innovation: Researching Inventions
- Social Studies 4 - High School: Early American Innovation: Formative Assessment
Language Arts Videos
- Language Arts 1 - Elementary School: Story Parts: Beginning, Middle, End Intro
- Language Arts 2 - Elementary School: Story Parts: Goldilocks & The Three Bears
- Language Arts 3 - Elementary School: Identifying the order of events in a story (Reinforcing Beg, Mid, End)
- Language Arts 4 - Elementary School: Story Parts: Beginning, Middle, End - Formative Assessment
- Language Arts 1 - Middle School: Figurative Language Vocabulary Review
- Language Arts 2 - Middle School: Poetry: Making predictions using vocabulary
- Language Arts 3 - Middle School: Figurative Language: Identification in Poetry
- Language Arts 4 - Middle School: Using figurative language to write poems
- Language Arts 1 - High School: The Language that makes "Good" Poetry
- Language Arts 2 - High School: "Good" Poetry: Using Literary Terms
- Language Arts 3 - High School: Incorporating Figurative Language into personal poetry
- Language Arts 4 - High School: Figurative Language in Poetry: Formative Assessment
Mathematics Videos
- Mathematics 1 - Elementary School: Intro: Arrays
- Mathematics 2 - Elementary School: Arrays 2
- Mathematics 3 - Elementary School: Arrays: Team Mastery
- Mathematics 4 - Elementary School: Arrays: exit slips
- Mathematics 1 - Middle School: 2 Step Equations: Intro
- Mathematics 2 - Middle School: 2 Step Equations: pt 2
- Mathematics 3 - Middle School: 2 Step Equations: pt 3
- Mathematics 4 - Middle School: 2 Step Equations: Formative Assessment
- Mathematics 1 - High School: Linear Equations: Intro
- Mathematics 2 - High School: Graphing Linear Equations
- Mathematics 3 - High School: Graphing Linear Equations: team mastery
- Mathematics 4 - High School: Graphing Linear Equations: formative assessment
Arts & Humanities Videos
- Music 1 - Elementary School: Voice Warm-Up
- Music 2 - Elementary School: "So, La, Mi" and Keeping a beat
- Music 3 - Elementary School: Rondo
- Music 4 - Elementary School: Formative Assessment
- Music 1 - Middle School: Introduction to Jazz
- Music 2 - Middle School: Jazz: Duke Ellington
- Music 3 - Middle School: Jazz: Making Statements about Composers
- Music 4 - Middle School: Jazz: Incorporating Technology
- Dance 1 - High School: Contraction: Intro
- Dance 2 - High School: Martha Graham
- Dance 3 - High School: Emotion and movements
- Dance 4 - High School: Formative Assessment
World Language Videos
- German 1 - Middle School: Review of vocabulary & Learning an idiom
- German 2 - Middle School: Grammar - Akkusativ
- German 3 - Middle School: Forming Sentences
- German 4 - Middle School: Formative Assessment
- German 1 - High School
- German 2 - High School
- German 3 - High School
- German 4 - High School
- Spanish 1 - Elementary School: Class Names: Review
- Spanish 2 - Elementary School: Voy a ____ : Talking about classes
- Spanish 3 - Elementary School: Simon Says with Vocab
- Spanish 4 - Elementary School: Formative Assessment
