The Balanced Instruction ScoreCard

Here is a simple worksheet to assess if your teaching is traveling full circle and addressing the 4 Quadrants of Learning in the 4MAT Learning Cycle.  

Check off those you are doing well to assess the range of teaching methods. 

Quadrant One Score ________          

• Begin by building on what they already know.                              
• Make it an experience.
• Get them to share their personal stories and perceptions.

 

Quadrant Two Score ________

• Teach the overarching ideas.    
• Explore relationships between big ideas.
• Synthesize as well as analyze.

 

 

Quadrant Four Score __________   

• Have multiple options to show mastery.                                
• Require new questions as part of the learning results.
• Use rubrics that students know ahead of time.                      
• Have students evaluate the use of learning in their own lives.

 

 

Quadrant Three Score ________       

• Make your practice require knowledge.                                        
• Differentiate practice, providing multiple methods for students to demonstrate understanding.
• Use open-ended problem solving.