Overview

In this course, you will learn the importance of aligning your instructional strategies and activities with your learning objectives and plans for assessments. The course will cover the five main instructional strategies, as well as how to choose the most effective strategies and activities that benefit all types of learners. Through targeted activities, resources and templates, and reference guides and examples, you will build a strategic implementation plan for use in the classroom. This course allows you to more deeply understand how to develop targeted strategies and activities by providing the details and steps required to align your instructional content with the lesson objectives and set assessments you built through the backwards design process.

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At a Glance

Extended Education
Approximately 30 hours
Access Time: 365 days
3 PDUs
Graduate Level Professional Development Credit
$380
No additional materials required

Program Benefits

Online education

100% Online

All coursework delivered fully online, so you can balance work, life, and study.

Standards

Graduate-Level PD Credits

Earn graduate-level professional development credits to support salary advancement and professional growth. Check with your school or district for approval before enrolling.

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Course Objectives

  • Learn to align instructional activities with learning objectives and plans for assessment
  • Understand, design, and apply the five main instructional strategies and how to choose the most appropriate one for upcoming lessons
  • Learn the difference between active and passive learning activities, and design
  • Learn how to choose a variety of learning activities that will benefit all types of learners
  • Build an action plan for lessons incorporating the principles from this course
  • Compose a targeted supplemental resource to ensure implementation of the planned lessons
  • Analyze and defend a research article covering the main topics within the course, to reflect on the research’s impact in the classroom
  • Plan for implementation of the action plan and course ideas

Course Topics

  • An Overview of instructional strategies & Activities.
  • Instructional strategies: Direct Teach.
  • Instructional strategies: Demonstration.
  • Instructional strategies: Cooperative Learning.
  • Instructional strategies: Project Based Learning.
  • Instructional strategies: Discovery/ inquiry-based learning
  • Choosing an Instructional Strategy
  • Active Learning vs Passive Learning.
  • Different Learning Styles.

Course Syllabus


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Program Partner

This course is offered through University of Massachusetts Global’s School of Extended Education in partnership with Model Teaching.

What are Graduate-level Professional Development Credits?

Graduate-level professional development credits are not part of a degree program but instead are primarily used for professional advancement such as salary increment steps and recertification. Students should seek approval from appropriate district officials before enrolling in these courses.

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