Accountability 9

Promoting Content Learning

18 cards·by tk1044

Prelearning activities

Strategies used to activate prior knowledge in a student and to prelude the assignment with important vocabulary and concepts students need

Purpose setting activities

When a teacher provides the students with the reason for completing an assignment

Preteaching vocabulary

Teaching the students specialized vocabulary that they need to know

Instructional clarity

A key to understanding that includes the clear, explicit information of a presentation

Pause procedure

A technique that utilizes logical breaks in order to keep them engaged, allowing students to compare notes or dicuss

Demonstration plus model strategy

Students perform steps after given a demonstration to prove their learning

Think-alouds

Meta-cognitive strategies that hav estudents verbalize what they are thinking and learning

Note taking strategies to foster in students

Selectivity, organization, consolidation, fluency

Selectivity

Selecting the most important ideas/information

Consolidation

Shrinking or minimizing ideas down to one main idea or topic

Organization

Showing how main ideas are interrelated or connected

Fluency

The art of rapid note taking

Graphic organizers

A strategy for students and teachers to organize ideas and picture how a lesson or essay may flow

Discussion web

Graphic aid that shows subtopics and connections between them

Semantic map

Helps to establish what students already know and what they need to find out

Concept diagram

Includes this such as definitions, characteristics, examples, and nonexamples of a subject in a visualization

Distributed practice

Breaking learning and information up into manageable chunks

Mnemonic devices

Memory triggering techniques