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Instructional Strategies for Teachers - Coggle Diagram
Instructional Strategies for Teachers
Generating and Testing Hypotheses
What is it?
Generating and testing hypothesis is when students make their own conjecture about a topic and test it to see if they are correct. This strategy is mainly used in science, but is applicable to all content areas.
The Main Idea
Using this strategy allows for students to engage in complex mental thinking. They use their knowledge to develop and idea, and then they can apply their knowledge to test their idea. Enhancing the overall understanding of the content a student has on the subject is the main goal.
Problem solving processes are a good way to deepen a student's understanding of a subject
Inquiry Based Teaching
What is it?
This instructional strategy stems from students' questions. The questions can be either prompted or spontaneous. The teacher helps the student to learn from questions
Students are given the opportunity to guide their own learning by being able to as questions. They can learn exactly what they're curious about and is good for students who are easily self motivated
The Main Idea
This instructional strategy pairs well with others such as cooperative learning or project based learning. It gives the student more power over what they learn, and can be very motivating in that aspect
Cooperative Learning
What is it?
This teaching strategy highly depends on the way the teacher structures interdependence among the students. The goal is to have students aid in each other's learning.
The Main Idea
The students work together to accomplishes shared goals. There are five main points in cooperative learning:
Positive Interdependence
Students evenly divide work and each member of the group is equally important
Individual Accountability
All students work together (other students aren't relying on an individual, but each other.)
Promotive Interaction
Ensures that the students are cooperating and learning with each other, sharing thoughts and ideas
Social Skills
Group projects help students to not only grow cognitive abilities and knowledge on subject matter, but also helps with social interactions
Group Proccessing
Allows students to reflect on their performance in the project, and help identify how they could better work together
Setting Objectives
What is it?
An objective is a description of what students should be able to do or know after some instruction. For objectives to be functional, they must be properly written, and clearly state what must be accomplished.
The Main Idea
To effectively write objectives, they need to be written in a way where the goal can be proven through action. It needs to be something tangible that the student can achieve. Focus on what students can do, not what they know.
Instead of something like
"Students will know the difference between igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks."
A properly written objective would look something like this:
*"Students will be able to identify and sort the various types of rocks into the right categories.
Scaffolding Instruction
What is it?
The term comes from construction terminology meaning a support system to be taken down later. When referring to education, it means that information is given to the students in pieces, rather than all at once.
Lessons are typically build onto each other. So one lessons knowledge requires knowledge from a previous lesson.
The information is in smaller portions so that it is easier to learn.
The Main Idea
the main idea of this instruction is to give students time to fully learn ideas or skilled needed for further learning
This strategy is useful to the teacher as well because it helps them to identify individual students who need help, and to understand what exactly the student is struggling with.