Learning Strategies
This is the process of purposefully monitoring our thinking.
What is Metacognition?
A common saying in the teaching world to exhibit modeling/scaffolding in a lesson.
What is, “I do, we do, you do.”
It is possible to reduce this demand of response while still promoting higher levels of thinking.
What is linguistic?
These are strategies that encourage students to sort out information through discussion and peer interaction.
What are social/affective strategies?
This type of scaffolding involves prompting, questioning, and elaboration to facilitate students’ movement to higher levels of language proficiency.
What is verbal scaffolding?
Teachers often use this to stimulate students' thinking by placing them purposely throughout the text.
What are prompts?
These strategies are used by learners when they mentally and/or physically manipulate information, or when they apply a specific technique to a learning task.
What are cognitive strategies?
Small group instruction is an example of this type of scaffolding, used by effective teachers.
What is procedural scaffolding?
This is a way to make higher order questions more intentional and purposeful to students each day.
What are having questions in advance through lesson planning?
Learning about your students’ educational backgrounds and their native language literacy proficiency can be a benefit.
What are strategies transfer to learning in a new language from their current one?
This is an Instructional scaffolding pre reading technique that prepares students for content of the textbook?
What are Graphic Organizers?
The percentage of literal-level questions asked annually by teachers.
What is 80%?
Lipson and Wixson suggest learners need these three types of knowledge as well as learning strategies.
What are declarative, procedural, and conditional knowledge?
This is a form of scaffolding to help students move from teacher regulated learning to independent practice.
What is gradual release of responsibility (GRR)?
This psychologists’ work provides guidance for asking the types of questions that challenge students to think more deeply about information.
Who is Benjamin Bloom? (Bloom’s taxonomy)