Instructions:
Please google "teaching strategies." Find one great strategy (not just the first one you find) and post it here as a "comment." Please include:
1. The name of the strategy.
2. A brief description of the strategy.
3. Advantages of the strategy.
No duplications, please. If someone has already posted the strategy, you will need to find another one.
This is due by January 25. The purpose is to collaboratively create a collection of stratgies from which our whole class can benefit.
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Teacher Read Alouds/Think Alouds:
ReplyDeleteThis making your thought processes known to the students. By thinking out loud about each step you mkae, helps to show how your brain is processing something rather than just trying to show them. This is good because it is showing how the brain is processing things, and can be used in every subject. It is also good for students to discuss things while they are reading, rather than after, so that is also a good thing.
Integrating Technology
ReplyDeleteWhen integrating technology in the classroom, teachers can post notes online, create a class website to allow students to discuss core concepts outside of the classroom, use email to better contact students and parents, and use instuctional software and games on classroom computers.
This is beneficial in classrooms since students are using technology more and more at home. By incorporating techology into the classroom, a teacher may be better able to engage students in assignments and activities.
When guiding a class discussion using lots of questions, always remember to cue student responses. An example would be saying to them, if the question allowed, “there is no single correct answer for this question.”
ReplyDeleteThis helps the student answer there own questions by nudging there thought process in the right direction.
Also, don’t ever hesitate to play devil’s advocate. It stimulates thinking by requiring students to defend prior reasoning against other points of view.
Gallery Walk
ReplyDeleteGallery Walk is a discussion technique in which the students are the ones leading the discussion. The teacher creates a series of open ended discussion questions and posts them on different “stations” (walls or desks) throughout the classroom. This is known as the “gallery” section. Each station has its own question that relates to the concept or lesson that is being taught. Students are put into groups and rotate around the classroom to answer each question. This part is known as the “walk”. As a team, they read what others have written and then add in their input by composing their own answer. The rotation stops when every team has answered every question. Once the group returns to their original station, they must synthesize comments and give an oral report to the whole class. The oral report is the conclusion of the Gallery Walk.
This strategy has many advantages. It gives students the opportunity to cooperate together as team by listening and sharing ideas with one another. They also havethe chance to work on their writing, speaking, and presentation skills. This strategy also promotes “higher order thinking”. The teacher has the chance to observe and measure the students understanding of the concept or lesson.
Journaling
ReplyDeleteTeachers can use journaling as a kind of window into how students are thinking about what they are learning. Student journals can be an important source of information about learning difficulties, misconceptions, strengths and weaknesses, and metacognition. The act of transferring thoughts, ideas, and feelings into written words also encourages students to examine their own thought processes. It is a private record of students' thoughts that provides a safe way of communicating with the teacher, giving teachers insight into those thoughts.
Journaling can be a private conversation that students have with themselves and that they let the teacher eavesdrop on. Double-entry journals help students analyze central concepts and refer to the text for justification. Reflective journals help students develop metacognitive skills by reflecting on what they learned and how they learned it. Dialogue journals help students converse in writing about content they are learning, and learning logs help students keep a record of their learning, clarifying their thinking and learning. Writing journals or writing notebooks can also help students keep track of their ideas and thoughts that they may want to write about in the future. Journals work best when students know they will not be evaluated (or graded) on their writing, and that it is a safe place to record their thoughts.
Jigsaw
ReplyDeleteThe jigsaw technique is effective when it comes to in-class group work. It consists of dividing the classroom into several "teams" giving each team or group separate but related assignments. Once the teams have collaborated ideas, the class is re-divided into mixed groups, one memember from each team into each group. The students will teach or share the information with the group allowing them to do the assignment together. "Piecing together" the information each has learned allowing them to see the whole picture.
The advantages consist of allowing the student to learn first hand, then teaching others. This will help the students remember what they have learned. When the test comes around the chances of the students remembering what they have learned much higher. Also, allowing them to work in groups will allow the students to gain more information from other students and teach them how to work in groups.
Collaborative Learning
ReplyDeleteCollaborative learning is the use of letting students work together in small or large groups. This allows for the students to work with their peers in discussing an assigned topic or even creating a finished project that culminates a unit or broad topic.
There are many advantages of collaborative learning. It is one of the most researched of all teaching strategies proving some of the benefits as follows. Results have shown that students who have the opportunity to work in groups may learn faster and feel more positive or willing to share comments than if it was in a teacher led discussion. Also, one of the greatest advantages to this teaching strategy is that working with others allows essential interpersonal skills that need to develop around this age in middle school. Working with others is something that a child needs to know and possess for his or her whole life.
Case Method. This allows students to apply what they learn in the class room to their every day lives.This has proven to be an effective way for students to integrate knowledge. The case method is an instructional strategy that helps to engage students in active discussion about issues and problems in practical application. It can provide a format for role playing about controversial issues.
ReplyDeleteI like this teaching strategy because it allows students to apply what they have already learned to the world outside of their class room.
The advantages of this strategy are that it helps children when it comes to further cementing their new found knowledge.
Adaptive Scheduling/Adaptive Testing
ReplyDeleteAfter researching “teaching strategies” I quickly realized that this does not just cover ideas for teaching lessons in unique and different ways. A teaching strategy is simply an effort to more effectively allow for students to gain knowledge and to succeed. Yes, this does come in the form of creative lessons for students, but it also comes in other forms such as:
Adaptive Scheduling. The definition and advantages go hand and hand. Adaptive scheduling is basically being aware of students’ busy lives with other tests and sporting events, etc. We as teachers desire for our students to succeed and do well. We can help that by knowing what is going on in their lives. While it is NOT possible to ALWAYS cater to the kids, it is helpful to keep it in mind. We are working in the middle level area and these kids are busy, busy, busy. A few examples:
1. At the start of the year, we should put on the calendar all the major football games, dances, and other SCHOOL events. It probably would not be smart to put a test the next day, since most would not have studied as much if it had been any other time. We want success.
2. Also, be in communication with other teachers and be flexible to not have multiple tests on one day.
3. It would not hurt to ask students what day of the week would be good for (the majority of) them. Students appreciate and desire choices.
"Take a Stand" is a technique applied to Social Studies. The teacher will announce a topic to be discussed. 2 signs will be taped to the wall of the room on opposite sides. One will be labeled "Oppose"and one will be labeled "Support". The teacher will ask the students to pick a side based on their opinion - is they oppose or support the issue that the teacher has put forth. The students who are not sure can stand in the middle of the room. Students will take turns expressing their opinions and trying to get the students in the middle to join their side by presenting convincing arguments based on the issue.
ReplyDeleteThe advantages of this strategy is that it gives students an opportunity and get up and move around and express what they are thinking/feeling freely. They will practice how to debate appropriately and give others respect while speaking. They will get involved in their position and trying to convince others to join them will make the students think more abstractly about their position.
POSTED BY KATIE GARDNER
Discussion:
ReplyDeleteA method that helps students recall infomation and refresh students memories.Allows for a chance for students to be able to ask questions and discuss with eachother what they think about the lesson or readings. Give them a chance to speak up and to make sure that they understand everything in the lesson.
http://www.gmu.edu/resources/facstaff/part-time/strategy.html
Just in time teaching (JiTT)
ReplyDeletethis focuses on improving learning by the use of web based assignments that re delivered before a class .The first step in implementing JiTT is to develop a set of questions which will be posted online for students to answer before class. They may be posted using a course management system, or a basic web site. For a small class, they may even be disseminated and returned via e-mail. The questions should be open-ended, requiring text response. They should explore students' prior knowledge and beliefs about the material to be covered in a single lesson.This meets several goals- it creates a student centered eviromment, it improves faculty student interaction, it improves content mastery and it develops group interaction skills.
Writing is the strategy
ReplyDeleteThe basic principle underlying these initiatives is that writing is more than a technical skill to be acquired in a first-year comp course but is, in fact, a mode of learning that can enhance students' understanding of the content of the disciplines. This strategy includes writing across the curriculum, critical thinking, technology and computers, notetaking, and personal expression. There are a variety of goals for incorporating writing within a course. The conventional goal is to demonstrate learning where clarity is the primary requirement. There is also writing for learning, fostering involvement in course material and promoting learning.
Getting the students to open up their minds and explore their creativity. Being able to express themselves and write about their thoughts.
Semantic Feature Analysis
ReplyDeleteThis strategy is technically a worksheet uesd to build vocabulary. This excercise builds on prior knowledge and showcases the uniqueness of each word.
The worksheet is set up as a grid with topics across the top and a list of words in the left column. Students mark which topic a word fits best with.
This strategy can be applied to every subject helping students visually depict their thoughts about word meanings. Students can charts information about whole numbers, book genres, dinosaurs, you name it!
http://www.readingrockets.org/strategies/semantic_feature_analysis
Voting Cards:
ReplyDeleteOne strategy that I noticed could really come in useful is voting cards. At the beginning of the year, give students colored, laminated cards that can be used to express their opinion in class.
For example, if they agree with a comment they can hold up a green card, neutral can be yellow, and if they disagree a red card can be used.
This can be extremely useful in classroom discussions when you want to get the whole class involved. Not only can it keep classroom chaos and noise down to a minimum instead of interruptions and yelling, but students who rarely speak up to voice their opinion might be more likely to hold up their card, and discussion can proceed from there.