Teaching Strategies: Promote Critical Thinking Using this Teaching Strategy
Teaching Strategies for Note-taking Many teachers use a two-column note taking strategy when giving notes to students. However, a colleague of mine takes this up a level by adding an additional column. That third column is used for test questions. Here’s how it works:...
Teaching Strategies: Goal Setting for Motivating Students
Add Goal Setting for Motivating Students to Your Kit of Teaching Strategies Goal setting is a planning process for empowering and motivating students to take control of their progress and work toward something in which they are invested. Students need to choose their...
Co-teaching Models: Collaborative Roles in the Classroom
Collaborative Roles in the Classroom Given the magnitude of demands placed on classroom teachers today, they can become overwhelmed with the task of trying to meet the needs of a heterogeneously grouped co-taught classroom. Whereas some content area teachers are...
Reciprocal Teaching – A Strategy to Improve Reading Comprehension
One of the best strategies to improve reading comprehension is reciprocal teaching, a teaching strategy involving discussion as well as using reading strategies (summarizing, question generating, clarifying, and predicting) to improve comprehension of text. Studies...