A form of instruction in which students passively receive information delivered in a (presumably) organized way by teachers.
What is lecture?
100
This strategy allows students to freely address their peers and ask their own questions of each other and of the teacher.
What is discussion?
100
This strategy is defined as a peer-assisted strategy in which a student who has mastered a certain skill or body of material teaches a student who has not mastered it.
What is peer tutoring?
100
This strategy is defined as repeating information to be remembered.
What is rehearsal?
200
A strategy in which a series of questions posed by the teacher are answered by students interacting only with the teacher, one at a time, or sometimes in a chorus.
What is recitation?
200
A teacher elicits from the students as many ideas as possible but refrains from evaluating them until all possible ideas have been generated.
What is brainstorming?
200
This strategy is defined as students who work together in small groups to help each other learn.
What is cooperative learning?
200
This strategy is defined as the conversion of new information into a meaningful arrangement that is easier for students to understand and remember.
What is the organizational strategy?
300
A disadvantage of this strategy is that it is time-consuming, in terms of both teacher planning and use of class time.
What is demonstration?
300
An advantage of this strategy is that it can be used to develop speed and accuracy in the recall of facts, concepts, and generalizations.
What is drill and practice?
300
An advantage of this strategy is that it helps students better express their feelings through cognitive, affective, and psychomotor skills in a creative and imaginative manor.
What is roleplaying?
300
This strategy is defined as the construction of a meaningful context, which can be either verbal or visual.
What is elaboration?
400
An advantage of this strategy is that it provides students with large amounts of information that otherwise might take them a great deal of time.
What is lecture?
400
An advantage of this strategy is it increases understanding and retention of information and skills because students play an active role in coming up with their new knowledge.
What is discovery learning?
400
This strategy incorporates the skills of forming questions, summarizing, making predictions, and anticipating and clarifying problems as they read.
What is reciprocal teaching?
400
Examples of this strategy include: clustering, graphic organizers, and outlining.
What is the organizational strategy?
500
An appropriate use for this strategy is to teach a related body of facts or a basic or complex skill.
What is direct instruction?
500
An appropriate use for this strategy is when the goal of the lesson is to encourage creativity and develop higher-order skills.
What is brainstorming?
500
Examples of this strategy include: student teams-achievement division, teams-games-tournaments, and jigsaw.
What is cooperative learning?
500
Examples of this strategy include: repeated reading, selective underlining, and two-column notes.