Effective teachers adopt a balanced approach to instruction that incorporates elements of both teacher-centered and child-centered learning. A balanced approach includes explicit skills instruction, opportunities for student choice and collaboration, and engaging students in evaluation of their own learning. It exposes students to core subjects like literacy, vocabulary, and content areas through a variety of teaching methods and materials.

1. Principle 4: Effective Teachers Adopt a Balanced Approach to Instruction Presenters: Melanie Murray and Christine Bell

2. Teacher -Centered lecture style: teacher talks, student listens students work alone instructor chooses topics

3. What happens when only teacher -centered approach is used?

4. interactive with teacher modeling students are given topic choices students may work in groups or alone students may participate in learning evaluation creativity is encouraged Child -Centered

5. Balanced Approach to Instruction

6. Balanced Approach Reading Phonemic awareness and phonics Literacy Vocabulary Comprehension Literature Content-area study Oral Language Writing Spelling

7. A balanced classroom

8. Think back to your favorite teacher. Which approach did they use?

9. Teacher – Centered = Blue Child-Centered = Red Balanced Approach = Yellow

10. explicit instruction in phonemic awareness and phonics exposure to a variety of reading materials opportunities to read interesting books meaningful reading and writing experiences What is excellent instruction?