Instructional Strategies
Learning Theories
Learning Approaches
Learning Practices: Methodologies
100

This strategy is becoming outdated due to overuse, enhanced technology, and student preferences.

Instructor-centered lessons

100

Students' behavior is based on their interaction with their environment and are passive participants in behavioral learning.

Behaviorism

100

Ability to know anAbility to appreciate and understand questions about life.

Existentialist

100

Ability to receive information

Acquisition

200

The instructor remains an authority figure but facilitates active learning for students.

Student-centered lesson

200

Learning relies on external factors like information or data and the internal thought process.

Cognitivism

200

Ability to use the body to produce or transform things

Bodily/ Kinesthetic

200

Ability to remember information once received

Retention

300

Students are engaged in their own learning through activities that promote skill development and critical thinking.

Active learning

300

Students combine thoughts, theories, and general information in a useful manner; accepts that technology is a major part of the learning process. 

Connectivism 

300

Ability to perceive moods, aims, motivations, and emotions of others.

Interpersonal

300

Ability to use information from one area on another area

Transfer

400

The name for an activity that promotes active learning in the classroom.

SCI 

Student Centered Instruction

400

Focuses on learning as an active process which is personal and individual for each student. 

Constructivism

400

Ability to manipulate and understand numbers and reasoning.

Logical/ Mathematical 

400

Students are empowered to take on an active role in their own learning and can improve no matter their baseline knowledge

Growth Mindset

500

Students receive information passively from an expert. Can be useful in some circumstances. 

Instructor-Centered lesson

500

Focuses on the idea of self-actualization and is closely related to the constructivism theory.

Humanism

500

Ability to appreciate and perform in various musical Forms

Musical

500

Students can either learn an idea or they cannot based on an instructor's teaching

Fixed mindset