What are three pointers you have learned in using instructional strategies?

Instructional strategies has taught me quite a lot throughout the semester. I feel like I am much more prepared to teach school age children now and I have a better understanding of curriculum materials across different age levels. Three main things that I am taking away from this class are that there are people that have tried to teach the same thing I am trying to teach so always research to help you get ideas and different strategies to teach it. It will give you a better starting point and help you be better prepared for your lessons in case they take a turn you weren't expecting. The second main thing is that we need to be aware of strategies used by the regular classroom teacher so that our strategies match and the student does not get confused. And lastly, I learned that it is important to have multiple strategies for one concept in your tool belt so that if you plan a lesson and plan to use one strategy and that strategy is difficult for the child to understand or the child is just not connecting with you need to have a back up way to teach the concept so that your lesson time is still effective. 

Has your view point of teaching changed after this course, how or how not? 

I think my view point of teaching has gotten more positive after taking this class. Not that it was not positive before, but I am loving the fact that all of these resources are out there for us. It makes me feel like I don't have to tackle it all by myself because there are other people out there sharing their ideas and resources that I can build of of and mold to use with my students.