What are the instructional strategies? Instructional strategies are techniques teachers use to help students become independent, strategic learners. These strategies become learning strategies when students independently select the appropriate ones and use them effectively to accomplish tasks or meet goals.
Learning is an adventure and the director of Brina Bug Preschool has provided hands-on engagement with real-world materials, exploring, questioning, evaluating, and making observations and building both learning readiness and learning capacity, in surroundings that stimulate the imagination and allow application in their environment.
The preschool classroom itself is set up as an instructional environment that nurtures and teaches social and emotional skills and allows for guided, structured independent learning and doing, even with small jobs and appropriate life skills. Structure – both routine, instruction, and physical surroundings.
The instructional strategies used also allow for tailoring to the three main learning styles: auditory, visual, and kinesthetic learners, and activities are also matched to the readiness level and interest of the child. The choices/consequences model allows students to differing maturation and developmental rates, as well as a variety of interests and differing needs.
Creativity and open-ended, process-oriented activities, such as the exploration of color, in the mixing and applying of paint, maybe more important than the finished piece. Preschool is not product-oriented, but process-oriented, project-based, play as instructional tool-based learning.
As often as possible the concrete, hands-on natural world, with active, the outdoor experience is used as the science laboratory, where children can pour, sift, weigh, touch, feel- even milk a goat, and acquire hands-on knowledge to complement their exploration of books. Math concepts are concrete hands-on explorations of models, quantity, size shape, and numerical knowledge is scaffolded through open-ended games and appealing problem-solving activities. Technology is integrated as a learning tool, but not the teacher or the main focus. The children are guided to come to their own conclusions and come up with original research and creations and proofs and evidence for what they are learning.
This brings children to not only learn to read, and strengthen reading readiness but also helps them WANT to know, WANT to understand, and want to learn to read. Through activities such as dramatic play, story mapping, charting, and other reporting activities.
Circle times and literature exploration focus upon the inquiry method, leaf experiential learning, driven by questions asked by the students themselves and the answers they find through research using fiction and nonfiction literature. Literature and the arts are integrated into all the subject areas, The teacher acts as a facilitator, asking questions and reinforcing observations, encouraging curiosity, excitement, and enthusiasm about the connections between the natural world, the numerical world, the world of ideas and speech, and the world of imagination. The students work together to discover connections and participate in cooperative learning. Taken all together, these learning strategies allow our preschool students to achieve the goal of becoming more independent, self-autonomous, wise and responsible, imaginative and intellectually curious little people who are enthusiastic about learning and relating to all the wonders and wonderful people in our world.
- Self-monitor behavior.
- Think about and plan what to say.
- Maintain directive attention.
- Interact with and/or question others.
- Preschool children develop literacy skills in a social environment.
- Preschool teachers can plan many activities that teach the basic concepts of numbers and math.
- Teach science through observation.
- Creativity and art.
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