How To Improve Instructional Rounds

By Ryan West


Various teaching methods are known to enhance the quality of learning. Instructional rounds is about a process that a group of teachers between 3 to 5 teachers come together and visit a classroom which another teacher is teaching. This helps them to become experts in teaching strategies and methods that perhaps they are not well aware of.

This involves observation whereby one observes what his partner is doing and learn new skills which he deems fit for him to adapt and use the same technique to teach his students. This requires members who volunteer and give their whole in the exercise. This is because some members of the staff may not be willing to learn something new and they are forced to do it. This will lead to hostility by members. Members who participate in the practice will empower themselves and perfect their skills.

Schools which employ this tactic will have to step in for the teachers who are participating in the exercise and represent them in their daily chores. This will make the teachers participating to concentrate without any worries.

The teachers undergoing the process will learn new strategies such as using of sticky notes which many teachers may not be well aware of. The sticky notes is whereby students write the main points in a sticky piece of paper and stick it in their books. This will help students not to easily forget and can be able to access it easily.

There are several other methods such as asking questions which many are familiar about but the technique used to answer those questions determines it. When a question is asked the teacher does not have to answer it directly but will leave the students to attempt it first before giving the final answer. This will make students to think hard and engage their brains.

After attending the monitored teaching the teachers will later hold a brief meeting to discuss how the process was beneficial to them and also discuss how to implement the new skills acquired. This will ensure that teaching is effective and learners are able to capture what they are taught without easily forgetting them.

This process has received positive remarks from the students who are eager to take in the knowledge they are provided with. The learners are also given an opportunity to give their views and suggest other ways that they find beneficial to them. This will also enable the tutors to interact more with their students and it will create a good relationship between them. The students will be willing to try out something new and thus make a teacher providing the knowledge to give his best for his students.

Teaching aids and equipment to teach will help them to know more and not easily forget. There is also the use of visual devices which provide better understanding of content. Those in need of new skills and knowledge will benefit a lot from the instructional trainings. Those using this have a good testimony because of positive results that will get at the end of the day.




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