Create: Strategy Descriptions

Create: Strategy Descriptions This is a collection of strategies in Streamlined ID as well as elsewhere. Research one or more of these strategies using an Internet search to find the definitions and usage.

Advance Organizers Anchored Instruction Case-Based Learning Cognitive Apprenticeship Discovery Learning Fishbowl Goal-Based Learning Guided Discovery Jigsaw I & II K-W-L Worksheets Non-Linguistic Representations Reciprocal Teaching Scenario-Based Learning Socratic Dialogue Think Aloud Protocols Think-Pair-Share

Activate prior knowledge Build confidence and create success through manageable, chunked challenges Encourage accountability, responsibility, and self-directed learning Establish expectations, including grading policies, late work policies, roles and responsibilities. Foster all levels of Bloom’s thinking skills Gain and maintain attention Make content relevant Model enthusiasm and attitudes Use a variety of formative and summative assessments including traditional assessments and alternative assessments, peer- and self-assessments, rubrics, performance tests, etc.

Strategies to build a sense of community: have students share information and a picture of themselves; use ice-breaker activities, establish group norms and negotiating patterns. Questioning techniques and types of questions (broadening questions, clarifying questions, justifying questions, hypothetical questions, and alternative questions); higher-order thinking skills questions, factual questions, evaluative questions, problem-solving questions, convergent and divergent questions. Wait Time I & II. Strategies to determine student prior knowledge: Use pretests, concept maps, discussion and cooperative exercises, ask probing questions, formative assessments. Strategies to overcome learner misconceptions: disequillibrium (confronting learners with data that conflicts with their mental schema); forcing learners to make a prediction before they see the real data.

© Taylor & Francis 2014 Page 1 of 2 Use collaborative learning to make learner thinking public; ask probing questions; present multiple perspectives and use role-play to encourage consideration of alternate viewpoints. Identify misconceptions by having learners build concept maps that show true or faulty relationships between elements.

Web Strategies to Foster Critical Thinking: Graphic organizers (flow charts concept maps, Venn diagrams, decision-making trees, sequence charts), voting or ranking methods, plus, minus, pros and cons, minute papers, reflection logs, think sheets, guided questioning, K-W-L, summaries, abstracts, reviews, index cards, outlines, nutshelling, critiques, rebuttals, replies, rejoinders, mock trials, debates, examining both sides of an argument, force field analysis, case-based reasoning, categorizations, comparisons, contrast matrices, taxonomies.

Web Strategies to Foster Creative Thinking: Brainstorming, simulations and role-plays, creative writing, What-if, Just Suppose, and Rearrange the Facts exercises, metaphorical thinking (also analogies, associations, synectics), Free Writing, Diaries, Personal Journal Logs, Idea-Spurring Questions, Checklists, or Cards, Semantic Webbing, Mapping, Linking, Chaining, and Free Association Exercises.

Web Strategies to Foster Cooperative Learning: Partner activities, round robins and round tables, asynchronous conferencing (electronic cafes, satellite conferences, discussion groups, synchronous conferencing, structured controversy, group investigation, value lines and graphs, project-based learning, gallery tours, team competitions, panel discussions, symposia, debates, team concept webs, picture-making exercises.