Post a response that identifies how you have used cooperative learning in your own classroom, or how you have observed its use in the classrooms of other teachers.

Classroom Rules and Procedures

Establishing rules and procedures is discussed as being one of the most important classroom management activities. Analyze your own classroom rules and procedures and discuss how you implement and reinforce them in your classroom.

Indirect Instruction

What strategies for indirect instruction have you used successfully to improve instruction? Please also feel free to share other thoughts about the pros/cons of indirect instruction.

Direct Instruction

Post a response on our class blog that discusses three areas in your teaching field in which the use of the direct instruction model would be especially appropriate. Explain why this would be true. Take this opportunity to share whether you have used any of the models or programs discussed. For example, Madeline Hunter's 7-step model has been and continues to be very popular in school districts as a guide for lesson design. Also--DISTAR is currently being used in some parishes. Have you used this program or seen it in action? If so, what did you think?