Simple strategies for improving the way we interacat with students and manage a classroom can easily be forgotten as we continue to grow in successful delivery of applicable knowledge. I have found that returning to the basic strategies can help re focus my effectiveness. By combining the other successful strategies I have learned with the simple and basic ones I first started with, it increases that effectiveness even more. I think we all tend to move through levels of performance. It is good for me and good for the students to go back and apply the basics to all the new levels that have been accuired along our paths. Failing to return to mastered levels, leaves them forgotten and unused. This can decrease the successful apllication of the skills we have tried so hard to advance and master. Simply returning to the basics, and re applying them has made a huge difference in effective instruction techniques.

Some specific examples of using basic startegies is to write things down. Writing comments, ideas, observations, and things that worked and did not work is a simple strategy that can re focus and clarify some of the pieces in a bigger puzzle. It can help identify patterns. These patterns can be student patterns, deficient or excess informational patterns. Writing things down is a basic strategy that helps me see the bigger picture, especially now, when I have many more tools to choose from. It can assist me in choosing the right tools for the job, instead of collecting them all in a jumbled toolbox that is too crowded and dis organized to use.