Strategies for Understanding and Integration

The next two sections will delve deeper into the topics of summarizing and drawing and developing explanations.

  • Summarizing and Drawing will benefit students that are asked to summarize information from a lesson in text or drawing.

  • Developing explanation explains three techniques that can have a large impact in learning, retention of information (in the short term at the very least), assessment performance, ability to explain concepts with more detail and accuracy, etc.

    • Elaborative Interrogation

    • Self-explanation

    • Teaching