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Reviewing Content
"Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good."
~ Plato
Desired Effect
Students can recall and describe the previous content on which the new lesson is built.
Purpose
- It connects previous learning experiences to current learning experiences, and sets the stage for deepening understanding of the content.
- The instructor can utilize this strategy to re-orient students back into a lesson from a previous day.
- The instructor can utilize this strategy as a formative assessment to guide instructional decisions in moving to deepen knowledge or to continue processing the information.
Teacher Evidence for Reviewing Content
Student Evidence for Reviewing Content
- Begins the lesson with a brief (5-8 minutes) review of content.
- Systematically emphasizes the cumulative nature of the content.
- Uses specific strategies to help students identify basic relationships between ideas and consciously analyze how one idea relates to another.
- Summary
- Problem that must be solved using previous information
- Questions that require a review of content
- Demonstration
- Brief practice test or exercise
- Warm-up activity
- Identify basic relationships between current and prior ideas and analyze how each idea relates.
- Articulate the cumulative nature of the content.
- Indicate they recall previous content with artifacts, pretests, and warm-up activities.
Scale
Strategies to Utilize
Cloze Activities
Demonstration
Summaries
Brief Practice Test or Exercise
Presented Problems
Questioning
- Use games to review content.
- Use review strategies within lessons, not just at the beginning of each day.
- Review important vocabulary in addition to content information.
- Have students teach review segments.
- In addition to reviewing content, review the learning goals regularly.
- Ask review questions that require more than a yes or no answer.
Resources
Actively Engaging Students in Reviewing Content - Part 1
Actively Engaging Student in Reviewing Content - Part 2
The Bridge - Strategy to Review Content
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