Teaching and Learning Strategies
Activity-Based Strategies:
- encourages students to learn by participating and doing things
- it provides students real-life opportunities for students to participate in active, self-directed learning experiences
- students are given the opportunity to explore, make choices, solve problems, and interact with others
- students progress at their own pace and interest
- students take responsibility for their learning
Samples: learning centers, debates, retelling, field trips, game, survey, oral presentation
Arts-Based Strategies:
- helps students develop the intellectual, creative, social, emotional, and physical aspects of their lives
- encourages students to understand and appreciate a variety of the forms of music, visual arts, drama, and dance
- these strategies enhance students' ability to think creatively and critically
- works particularly well for visual-spatial and bodily kinesthetic learners
Samples: role playing, story theatre, storyboard, improvisation, puppetry, mask making, drama, choral reading, collage
Cooperative Strategies:
- helps students to become active, responsible, and caring citizens by promoting positive and collaborative group interactions, respectful listening behavior, and the weighing of both sides of an argument or issue
- teaches students to interact successfully with each other
- provides students with the opportunity to develop thinking, problem-solving, and information-sharing skills
Samples: think/pair/share, mentoring, discussion, interview, round table, literature circles, community links
Direct Instruction Strategies:
- used in a structured environment that is directed by the teacher/group leader
- students need to focus their attention
- materials are presented so students can ask questions and statements, which allows time for feedback
- meets the needs of auditory and sometimes visual learners
Samples: prompt, book talks, read along, review, seminar, guided exploration, guided reading, lecture, worksheets, story mapping
Independent Learning Strategies:
- helps students build knowledge and skills to become self-directed, motivated, and independent learners
- provides opportunities for students to make decisions about their learning
- students investigate topics in more depth
- develops time-management and self-monitoring strategies
Samples: homework, note making, independent reading, independent study, reading response, reflection, learning log, response journal
Thinking Skill Strategies:
- develops critical thinking, questioning skills, analytical skills, and reflective practices
- involves organizational frameworks, representational strategies, and evaluative processes
- develop their own understanding and ability to deal with new situations, make complex decisions, and meet their individual and community needs now and in the future
Sample: map making, brainstorming, case study, classifying, mind map, model making, concept mapping, oral explanation, problem solving, experimenting, think aloud, visual/graphic organizers, manipulatives, writing to learn
- encourages students to learn by participating and doing things
- it provides students real-life opportunities for students to participate in active, self-directed learning experiences
- students are given the opportunity to explore, make choices, solve problems, and interact with others
- students progress at their own pace and interest
- students take responsibility for their learning
Samples: learning centers, debates, retelling, field trips, game, survey, oral presentation
Arts-Based Strategies:
- helps students develop the intellectual, creative, social, emotional, and physical aspects of their lives
- encourages students to understand and appreciate a variety of the forms of music, visual arts, drama, and dance
- these strategies enhance students' ability to think creatively and critically
- works particularly well for visual-spatial and bodily kinesthetic learners
Samples: role playing, story theatre, storyboard, improvisation, puppetry, mask making, drama, choral reading, collage
Cooperative Strategies:
- helps students to become active, responsible, and caring citizens by promoting positive and collaborative group interactions, respectful listening behavior, and the weighing of both sides of an argument or issue
- teaches students to interact successfully with each other
- provides students with the opportunity to develop thinking, problem-solving, and information-sharing skills
Samples: think/pair/share, mentoring, discussion, interview, round table, literature circles, community links
Direct Instruction Strategies:
- used in a structured environment that is directed by the teacher/group leader
- students need to focus their attention
- materials are presented so students can ask questions and statements, which allows time for feedback
- meets the needs of auditory and sometimes visual learners
Samples: prompt, book talks, read along, review, seminar, guided exploration, guided reading, lecture, worksheets, story mapping
Independent Learning Strategies:
- helps students build knowledge and skills to become self-directed, motivated, and independent learners
- provides opportunities for students to make decisions about their learning
- students investigate topics in more depth
- develops time-management and self-monitoring strategies
Samples: homework, note making, independent reading, independent study, reading response, reflection, learning log, response journal
Thinking Skill Strategies:
- develops critical thinking, questioning skills, analytical skills, and reflective practices
- involves organizational frameworks, representational strategies, and evaluative processes
- develop their own understanding and ability to deal with new situations, make complex decisions, and meet their individual and community needs now and in the future
Sample: map making, brainstorming, case study, classifying, mind map, model making, concept mapping, oral explanation, problem solving, experimenting, think aloud, visual/graphic organizers, manipulatives, writing to learn
Resources:
Teaching and Learning Strategies Overview: Core Methods. (2008). p. 1-6
Teaching and Learning Strategies Overview: Core Methods. (2008). p. 1-6