Lecture: an oral presentation interspersed with opportunities for reflection, clarification, and sense making.
Drill and Recitation: A teaching strategy that helps students memorize and recall information with accuracy and speed.
Direct Instruction: A method of teaching that consists of a teacher’s systematic explanation of a new concept or skill followed by guided practice under a teacher’s guidance.
Strategy-Based Instruction: A method for teaching a cognitive strategy or procedure; the teacher explains and helps students acquire the strategy, models, the strategy, and provides guided practice and feedback to students as they internalize the strategy.
Coaching: A teaching method in which teachers make criterion-referenced observations about a student’s performance and provide immediate, specific feedback in order to improve the student’s performance.
Concept Attainment: A method teachers use to help students understand the essential attributes of a category or concept; to achieve this goal, the teacher systematically leads students through a controlled discussion during which students compare and contrast characteristics of examples and non-examples of the category or concept.
Demonstration/Modeling: A teaching method in which the teacher’s actions and behaviors serve as an example for students who, in turn, are able to replicate the actions and behaviors in other contexts.
Socratic Questioning: An instructional strategy in which the teacher poses a carefully constructed sequence of questions to students to help them improve their logical reasoning and critical thinking about their position on an issue.