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

Demonstration

Pre-teach and Re-
teach

Additional practice

Student peer
assistant

Observation

Sheltered
Instruction
Observation

Differentiated

instruction

Graphic

organizers

Re-teach

direct

instructions

Appropriate

questioning &

response skills

Adaptive

equipment

Modified lesson

plan using other

materials

Vocabulary in

picture form

Work with

specialists such

as school

occupational

therapist or

Physical

demonstration

Visual example,

draw a picture.

Writing the word.

(Picture word

recall)

Building on prior

knowledge

Teaching through

relevance