Research today has demonstrated that working through the examples is one of the best strategies for this type of skill learning.
What is reading as active learning?
100
Attendance, laptops, Facebook, cell phones, and students who are only focused on grades.
What are challenges to motivation in the classroom?
100
Students can increase how much they understand and learn through informal writing assignments.
What is low-stakes writing?
100
This alternate teaching strategy combines both face-to-face teaching and online learning.
What is Blended Learning?
100
Students who are diligent and resourceful in pursuit of a learning goal.
What are strategic learners?
200
This will always be a pathway of learning for students, other materials supplement the student's learning process.
What is reading text?
200
Attends class regularly, participates constructively, and persists when learning is difficult.
What is a motivated learner?
200
Arguing a position, analyzing data or text, and collaborative papers.
What are high-stakes writing genres?
200
Students learn more from this active learning strategy.
What are student led discussions?
200
Knowledge about oneself as a learner, academic tasks, and strategies to use in order to accomplish academic tasks.
What are the Metacognitive Processes?
300
This reading state requires the student to pay more attention to what they're reading because they have a general goal of understanding, with some directions that focus on the overall intent.
What is Mindfulness?
300
Enhancing students' sense of control by offering meaningful opportunities for choice and supporting their autonomy, which increases motivation.
What is autonomy & self-determination?
300
A middle-stakes writing assignment that works at thinking and cleaning things up a bit so it isn't unpleasant to read.
What is a think piece?
300
This technological active learning strategy gives students an active learning opportunity.
What is personal response system/clickers?
300
Using existing knowledge to help learn new things through directly relating prior knowledge to what is being learned.
What are direct relations?
400
The acronmyn SQR3 stands for.
What is strategy, question, read, recite, and review?
400
These students are more likely to use cognitive strategies such as elaboration and organization, resulting in deeper processing of the material.
What is an instrinsically motivated college student?
400
Remember - this tool does not compensate for poor writing.
What is technology?
400
This strategy encourages student writing in large classes by having students write a summary of the three main points in three minutes.
What is the Minute Paper?
400
Paraphrasing the learning concept, applying the learning concept, cooperative learning, and peer tutoring.
What are methods for checking understanding?
500
Building links to the course as a whole frequently and using readings in class exercises.
What are strategies to encourage student reading?
500
Activities that students value x expectancy of success = increase in student motivation
What is Expectancy-Value Theory?
500
Clarify in your syllabus, collect low-stakes writing to identify style & voice, assign specific and unique topics, and require drafts and revisions.
What are strategies to prevent and handle plagiarism?
500
Announce that you'll meet any students who are free for coffee after class or pass out brief student observation forms to several students at the beginning of class and ask them to meet with you to discuss their observations.
What are strategies to reduce student's feelings of anonymity?
500
Strategic learners use this process to organize and manage their approach to reaching a learning goal.