Three Formats of Instruction Used in My Classroom
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Whole Group: Used to introduce to new lessons, during morning messages, and during Science and Social Studies.
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Small Group: Used during reading a math rotations when students are broken into homogeneous groups.
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Individual: Used for for special intervention. This has most often been doable when I had a para-educator or volunteer in my classroom.
In my classroom, one of the strategies of instruction I use was developed by Jacob S. Kounin (as cited by Evertson, 2017.)
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It involves the following:
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To prevent misbehavior: the teacher must be "with-it" which requires the ability to take in and monitor overlapping events. An example is being able to listen to one student while seeing another needs a prompt to sit down.
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Managing movement: this means I must keep lesson momentum, lessons should move smoothly. This involves being prepared and ready for transitions, as well as keeping on task.
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Maintaining group focus: this means you have to keep the attention of all even when only one student's responding to a question. Kounan suggests high participation formats that has students performing some concurrent related task, while other students actively answer or participate. An example would be if as one student answers a math problem on the board, other students are checking her work.
Evertson, C.M., & Emmer, E.T. (2017). Classroom management for elementary teachers. Boston: Pearson.