Modalities
What is Visual?
This is a teacher-centered approach where concepts and skills are explicitly taught through clear, structured lessons.
What is Direct Instruction/Questions?
Indirect instruction uses this type of question.
What is open-ended questioning?
This is the most reliable measure of learning in a classroom.
What is Active Student Responding?
Centers are a great way to tailor activities to meet the diverse needs, interests, and skill levels of students, using this form of instruction.
What is Differentiated Instruction?
This modality helps learners retain information best through listening and speaking, sometimes through the use of songs, chants, and rhymes.
What is Hearing?
This component of direct instruction breaks down the steps of the skill or concept.
What is step-by-step instruction?
When using indirect instruction, it is important to use this strategy of instruction instead of direct delivery of content.
What is scaffolding?
This cannot occur unless learners actively respond.
What is learning?
These are designated areas in the classroom where students engage in specific tasks or activities related to the curriculum.
What are centers?
These learners need to move their bodies to process information, which is why we use movement-based centers.
What is Kinesthetic?
This is the best time to use direction instruction when teaching a new skill or concept.
What is at the beginning or initially?
These are questions that challenge assumptions and reveal misconceptions.
What are misleading questions?
This is when the teacher says something, sings something, or provides an action, and then the students pay attention and respond in unison.
What is Call and Class Response?
This key benefit allows students to practice skills previously taught, reinforcing their learning in different formats.
What is Practice and Reinforcement?
Using sensory materials in your instruction allos these learners to understand through hands on manipulation.
What is Tactile?
This key benefit of direct instruction consistently introduces new concepts by defining the term, providing examples, and employing the I do, we do, you do teaching style.
What is a predictable routine?
Teachers who ask closed-ended questions that elicit a binary response are using this form of questioning.
What are yes-no questions?
This is a Key Feature of ASR, which means that all students answer at the same time with a similar answer.
What is Group Response?
This key component of teaching is reinforced through the use of centers because it minimizes behavioral issues by keeping students engaged.
What is Classroom Management?
Learning happens best when teachers teach across these many modalities.
"2+2=4" and asking "What would you use to get water to drink?" are examples of this type of instruction.
What is direct instruction?
What are "Why?" and " How do you know?"
This is when all students respond aloud in unison to a prompt, question, or cue from the teacher.
What is Class Choral Responding?
These are two additional names for centers.
What are learning centers or stations?