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

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

  1. Clear Lesson Goals
  2. Show & Tell
  3. Questioning to Check for Understanding
  4. Summarize New Learning in a Graphical Way
  5. Plenty of Practice
  6. Provide Your Students with Feedback
  7. Be Flexible about How Long It Takes to Learn
  8. Get Students Working Together
  9. Teach Strategies, Not Just Content
  10. Nurture Meta-Cognition

Infographic

  1. Crossover Learning
  2. Learning through Argumentation
  3. Incidental Learning
  4. Context-based Learning
  5. Computational Thinking
  6. Learning by Doing Science
  7. Embodied Learning
  8. Adaptive Teaching
  9. Analytics of Emotions
  10. Stealth Assessment

  1. Setting goals
  2. Structuring lessons
  3. Explicit teaching
  4. Worked examples
  5. Collaborative learning
  6. Multiple exposures
  7. Questioning
  8. Feedback
  9. Metacognitive strategies
  10. Differentiated teaching

  1. Explicit Teaching
  2. Collaborative Learning
  3. Multiple Exposures
  4. Differentiated Teaching
  5. Questioning

Content Planning

1. Guiding Questions

2. Learning Maps

Formative Assessment

3. Specific Proficiencies

4. Checks for Understanding

5. Teaching Modifications

Instruction

6. Thinking Prompts

7. Effective Questions

8. Cooperative Learning

9. Stories

10. Authentic Learning

Community Building

11. Learner-Friendly Culture

12. Power With, not Power Over

13. Freedom Within Form

14. Expectations

15. Witness to the Good

16. Corrections

  1. Retrieval Practice
  2. Spaced Practice
  3. Interleaving
  4. Feedback-driven Metacognition