Transcript Overview of Nine Strategies

Instructional Strategies That Work!
An Overview
• District Strategic Plan
• Classroom Walk-Throughs
• K-12 Comprehensive Reading Plan
• Connections to Prior Professional
Development
Factors Influencing Achievement
School
Guaranteed and Viable Curriculum
Challenging Goals and Effective Feedback
Parent and Community Involvement
Safe and Orderly Environment
Teacher
Instructional Strategies
Student
Collegiality and Professionalism
Learning Intelligence/Background Knowledge
Classroom Management
Classroom Curriculum Design
Home Environment
Motivation
Categories in Instructional Strategies That Affect
Student Achievement
Category
Identifying similarities and differences
Percentile
Gain
No. of ESs
45
31
Summarizing and note taking
34
179
Reinforcing effort and providing recognition
29
21
Homework and practice
28
134
Nonlinguistic representations
27
246
Cooperative learning
27
122
Setting objectives and providing feedback
23
408
Generating and testing hypotheses
23
63
Questions, cues and advance organizers
22
1,251
1. Identifying
Similarities and Differences
Teachers
Enhance students’ understanding
of and ability to use knowledge
by engaging them in mental
processes that involve identifying
ways items are alike and
different.
2. Summarizing and
Note Taking
Teachers
Enhance students’ ability to
synthesize and organize
information in a way that captures
the main ideas and supporting
details.
Teachers
3. Reinforcing Effort and
Providing Recognition
Provide students with rewards or
praise for their accomplishments
related to the attainment of a
goal.
4. Homework and Practice
Teachers
Enhance students’ ability to reach
the expected level of proficiency
for a skill or process.
Teachers
5. Nonlinguistic
Representations
Enhance students’ ability to
represent and elaborate on
knowledge using mental images.
6. Cooperative Learning
Teachers
Provide students with
opportunities to interact with
each other in groups in ways
that enhance their learning.
7. Setting Objectives and
Providing Feedback
Teachers
Provide students with a direction
for learning and appropriate
information to track their
personal progress.
8. Generating and Testing
Hypotheses
Teachers
Enhance students’ understanding
of and ability to use knowledge
by engaging them in mental
processes that involve making
and testing hypotheses.
(Action Research)
9. Cues, Questions, and
Advance Organizers
Teachers
Enhance students’ ability to
retrieve and use what they
already know about a topic.