Standard 4

Multiple Instructional Strategies – The online teacher understands and uses a variety of instructional strategies to develop students’ critical thinking, problem solving, and performance skills.


Performance Indicator #4.1 The online teacher evaluates methods for achieving learning goals and chooses various teaching strategies, materials, and technologies to meet instructional purposes and student needs. (e.g., online teacher-gathered data and student offered feedback).

  • Citing Sources Correctly using APA Style – This assessment / lesson was designed to help students learn how to cite sources correctly and avoid plagiarism.  It includes a rationale as wells a various activities that will help students develop these abilites.  It also includes an evaluation section, needs assessment, and task analyses.

Performance Indicator #4.2 The online teacher uses student-centered instructional strategies to engage students in learning.

  • Screen Writing: The Scene – I created this module of the a screen writing course.  Although, it was created in EDTECH 522 (Adult Online Teaching) the principles translate easily to the K-12 environment and could easily be worked into a senior English class.

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Performance Indicator #4.3 The online teacher uses a variety of instructional tools and resources to enhance learning.

  • The Interior Landscape – This is as lesson designed for English students and introducing them to the interior monologue.  It makes use of various forms of web media and is housed in a Moodle LMS.  It requires students to interact with the LMS modules and tools.  While this is just a sample, it is easily converted to Blackboard and ready for use in any LMS.

The link takes you to a Moodle login page.  Please login as a guest or use the following credentials:

Username: user
Password: user

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