Strategies

A strategy is a set of methods or activities to teach your child something. An instructional intervention may include strategies. But not all strategies are interventions. The main difference is that an instructional intervention is formalized, aimed at a known need and monitored.

- Andrew M.I. Lee, JD

32 Research-based Instructional Strategies

Setting Objectives
Reinforcing Effort/Providing Recognition
Cooperative Learning
Cues, Questions & Advance Organizers
Nonlinguistic Representations
Summarizing & Note Taking
Identifying Similarities & Differences
Generating & Testing Hypotheses
Instructional Planning Using the Nine Categories of Strategies
Rewards based on a specific performance standard
Homework for later grades
Direct Instruction
Scaffolding Instruction
Provide opportunities for student practice
Individualized Instruction
Inquiry-Based Teaching (see 20 Questions To Guide Inquiry-Based Learning)
Concept Mapping
Reciprocal Teaching
Promoting student metacognition (see 5o Questions That Promote Metacognition In Students)
Developing high expectations for each student
Providing clear and effective learning feedback (see 13 Concrete Examples Of Effective Learning Feedback)
Teacher clarity (learning goals, expectations, content delivery, assessment results, etc.)
Setting goals or objectives (Lipset & Wilson 1993)
Consistent, ‘low-threat’ assessment
Higher-level questioning (Redfield & Rousseau 1981) (see Questions Stems For Higher Level Discussion)
Learning feedback that is detailed and specific
The Directed Reading-Thinking Activity
Question-Answer Relationship (QAR) (Raphael 1982)
KWL Chart (Ogle 1986)
Comparison Matrix (Marzano 2001)
Anticipation Guides (Buehl 2001)
Response Notebooks (Readence, Moore, Rickelman, 2002)