Teaching Strategies

Jigsaw promotes cooperative learning where students become experts on the content and teach each other the key takeaways or learnings of the content. This also supports both comprehension of the material as well as increases communication skills.

Whiparound is a discussion where every student shares out loud their thoughts, ideas, or opinion. This strategy promotes whole-class sharing that ensures participation and engagement as well as enables the teacher to assess students' learning.

In Gallery Walk, students create an outline of an image about the topic at the center of it with relevant drawings, takeaways, quotes, interpretations, and words. This allows students to visually and kinesthetically process content and helping students make connections between key concepts, symbols, and ideas.

Think-Pair-Share is a collaboration strategy that requires the students to individually respond to a question or solve a problem, discuss their answer with their peer, and then synthesize and communicate their learnings with the entire class.

3-2-1 is a comprehension strategy which requires students to identify three new discoveries, two interesting ideas, and one question after reading a text or viewing a video.

Exit Tickets are brief formative assessments that evaluates students' understanding of a concept at the end of the class. Exit tickets provide quick essential feedback on student understanding that helps modify instruction.