Research Based Strategies

Thematic Instruction


   After reading about thematic instruction I can definitely say the PowerPoint quiz did not support this research based strategy. There are several way in which this is apparent from the fact that the quiz did not have a theme that related to students lives to it not having a theme that was formed as a question. The one that really stuck out to me was were we were only aloud to ask the teacher for help. According to thematic instruction you should have the students form small groups so as to help with problem solving.
   To make this activity fall under thematic instruction I would first come up with a theme something like "How does learning to use PowerPoint help future teachers in the classroom?" Then I would have the students work in a small group to come up with a PowerPoint slide show to explain this. By doing this I have came up with a theme that is appropriate for the students involved because we are studying to be teachers. This would also help because by having the students work in small groups they can help each other. Not only will they learn how to use PowerPoint but they will also learn something of value they can use in the real world or as you called it "Meaningful Learning".

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Focus on effectiveness. Retrieved from http://www.netc.org/focus/strategies/them.php