Elementary Visual School Arts

Research-Based Effective Teaching

Strategies

21 st Century Learning Skills

Check all that apply to the unit:

X Identifying Similarities and

Differences

Summarizing and Note Taking

X Reinforcing Effort, Providing

Recognition

Homework and Practice

Nonlinguistic Representations

X Cooperative Learning

X Setting Objectives, Providing

Feedback

Generating and Testing Hypotheses

X Cues, Questions, and Advance

Organizers

Interdisciplinary Non-Fiction Writing

Check all that apply to the unit:

X Teamwork and Collaboration

Initiative and Leadership

X Curiosity and Imagination

X Innovation and Creativity

X Critical Thinking and Problem Solving

Flexibility and Adaptability

X Effective Oral and Written

Communication

X Accessing and Analyzing Information

Other

Differential

Strategies

(Additional

Supports +

Enrichment)

Intervention

Strategies

(Tiers 1, 2, 3)

Specially

Designed

Instruction for

Special Education

Students

Strategies for

English Language

Learners

Web quest
researching images
and information
online

Demonstration

Pre-teach and Re-
teach

Additional practice

Student peer
assistant

Observation

Sheltered
Instruction
Observation

Differentiated

instruction

Systematic,

sequential

instruction

Chunking

Graphic Organizers

Re-teach

direct

instructions

Appropriate

questioning &

response skills

Cueing and

Adaptive equipment

Modified lesson

plan using other

materials

Vocabulary in

picture form

Specialized

manipulation tools

Addressing learning

modalities

Inclusion of

specialists

(occupational

therapist, physical

therapist, ESL

Physical

demonstration

Visual example,

draw a picture.

Writing the word.

(Picture word recall)

Building on prior

knowledge

Teaching through

relevance

Physical demo.

Visual example,

draw a picture