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Heather Edick's List: Teaching Strategies

    • Teaching that emphasizes active engagement helps students process and retain information. It leads to self-questioning, deeper thinking, and problem solving. Engagement strategies like repetition, trial and error, and posing questions move the brain into active and constructive learning. And such activities can lead to higher student achievement.
    • 7- to 10-minute segments followed by a processing activity.

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    • I want to explore teachers’ reactions to scripted instruction in a historical perspective. To do so, I compare two old scripts, the Froebelian kindergarten and Montessori, with two modern scripts, Direct Instruction and Success for All. I chose these scripts because of their longevity and wide use.
    • Direct Instruction is about fifty years old; Success for All is about twenty-five.

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    • Take it one dimension at a time. Look at your teaching—try to vary the content, process,
        or product for a particular lesson or across a unit. Look at your learners—get to know
        something more about their interests, profiles, or readiness. Consider incorporating the
        following ideas into your classroom management, instruction, and approach:
      • Ideas to consider for adapting the content, or the what:

         
           
        • Changing the complexity of the lesson 
             
          • Vary the complexity along the lines of concrete, symbolic, or abstract explorations.
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        • The resources you provide for the lesson 
             
          • Vary the resources, involving narrative, informational, multimedia, experts, and guests.
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        • The context of the lesson 
             
          • Vary the context from classrooms, programs, communities, and virtual environments.

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    • Talking to the Text (TttT) is similar to doing a Think Aloud except that Talking to the Text is initially done on an individual basis with students reading the text on their own privately. As they read, students write their comments on the text.  Some of the same questions and prompts used in Think Alouds can be used with Talking to the Text. 
    • After a student does a private Talking to the Text exercise, then they share their experience with others in a Pair and Share or small group.
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