Mastery Strategies
Understanding Strategies
Self-Expressive Strategies
Interpersonal Strategies
Four Style Strategies
100
This strategy is founded on the principles of effective modeling, emerging independence, learning by questioning and ongoing assessment.
What is direct instruction?
100
This strategy may use a Venn diagram or a Top Hat organizer as a means of organizing thinking.
What is Compare and Contrast?
100
This strategy is based on three distinct lines of research: Proficient Reader Research Dual Coding Field Research
What is Mind's Eye?
100
This is a group discussion strategy intended to build the sense of classroom togetherness, mutual respect, and emotional openness.
What is community circle?
100
Note making techniques and tools are key to this strategy.
What is window notes?
200
Students are involved directly in the differentiation process as they analyze a variety of tasks at different levels of difficulty, select the task that is most important for them, complete and evaluate their chosen task, and chart goals for improvement and achievement at higher levels of difficulty.
What is graduated difficulty?
200
This strategy may ask students to use clues in order to engage them in the process of inquiry and learning.
What is mystery?
200
This strategy may compare the steps in digestion to the steps in solving an Algebraic problem.
What is metaphorical expression?
200
Students coach peers through the learning process.
What is reciprocal learning?
200
This provides a manageable and classroom-friendly framework for differentiating by learning style.
What is task rotation?
300
This strategy could be viewed as an interpersonal strategy due to its collaboration and interactive nature, but is placed as a mastery strategy because of its focus on review, reliance on questions with verifiable answers, and the premium on memorizing answers.
What is teams-games-tournaments?
300
This strategy includes the examination of examples and non-examples to construct meaning from "the ground up".
What is concept attainment?
300
This strategy includes grouping and classifying by common attributes.
What is inductive learning?
300
Students divide and conquer to learn portions of the information and share back with others.
What is jigsaw?
300
This has a content-driven focus and requires active, in-depth thinking on the part of students.
What is circle of knowledge?
400
This strategy is described as brain-compatible, interactive, and memorable.
What is New American Lecture?
400
An organizer for this strategy may include a section for proof for and a section for proof against a particular statement.
What is reading for meaning?
400
Students look for the patterns and structures behind texts and ideas.
What is pattern maker?
400
Students use their own criteria and values to evaluate and make decisions.
What is decision making?
400
This strategy may remind you of the December holidays. Okay, everyone needs a gimme!
What is Do You Hear What I Hear?
500
This strategy builds on the differentiation work of Tomlinson, suggesting that content, thinking process, and product or performance are ways to differentiate for all students.
What is graduated difficulty?
500
An extension of this strategy may include problem based learning.
What is mystery?
500
This strategy may appeal to the artistic child who benefits from visual imagery.
What is mind's eye?
500
Learning by committee could fall into this strategy.
What is jigsaw?
500
There are four different styles of tasks associated with this strategy: mastery, understanding, self-expressive, and interpersonal.
What is task rotation?
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