Clarissa Martinez-Cottman
Discussion: There are a variety of ways to stimulate discussion. For example, some faculty begin a lesson with a whole group discussion to refresh students memories about the assigned readings. Other faculty find it helpful to have studets list critical points or emerging issues, or generate a set of questions stemming from the assigned readings.
http://www.gmu.edu/resources/facstaff/part-time/strategy.html
I personal loved this suggestion beause it is a causal but usefully way for students to prepare themselves for class. As long as monitored to make sure group converstaion is on topic, its a great way to get students ready for any of the day's lessons without starting things off with a lecture that is sure to put there brains on snooze.
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Graphic Organziers: A visual tool to aid and facilitate learning and instruction. Allows the mind to see patterns and relationships. This can be used to map ideas for students that learn more visually. Known by several names such as concept map, knowledge map, story map. Can be used in sequencing events, main ideas, show elements of a story.
ReplyDeleteThis is a helpful strategy for teachers in which they can create a graphic organizer on the board to gain prior knowledge from students. Student can construct their own organizer to help with writing or sequencing events in history. I really like this strategy especially for writing. It helps to map the thoughts and put it in a logical sequence.