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Strategic Knowledge
Informed Strategy Instruction
Teaching Learning Strategies
Fixing Up Difficult Situations
Summarization
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Learning strategies.
What strategies are important to teach students in order to make them life-long learners?
100
Knowng their content area textbook's format and organization.
What basic strategy is most often overlooked by the student that helps him retain the information he has read?
100
When they hold strong, positive views of their ability.
What is makes a student successful learner?
100
It is a map, chart, picture or graph that helps provide meaning to the student when he is reading content.
What is a visual aid?
100
Sticky notes, foldables and index cards.
What are the formats teachers can use to help their students interact with their textbooks?
200
The necessary steps for implementing a learning strategy.
What is procedural knowledge?
200
Preview
What should students do before reading their assignments?
200
He believes that his ability is fixed and that he can not change it.
What does a student with low self-efficacy feel about his learning ability?
200
Rote memorization.
What is a passive strategy students use when they don't understand what they are reading?
200
Index cards.
What note taking format is analogous to "flash cards?"
300
A type of strategy that useful for a particular learning need.
What is declarative knowledge?
300
Provide them with explicit and descriptive information pertaining to his expectations for the product.
What can an instructor do to make sure his or her students complete their assignments?
300
The best match between a study process and an academic task, where information is easily transferred to long term memory.
What is transfer appropriateness?
300
Reread the confusing sentence or paragraph.
What is the simpliest strategy, for the student to use, when he does not comprehend what he is reading?
300
Selecting key ideas and discarding irrelevant facts.
What prerequisite skills do students most often fail to use when taking notes?
400
It relates to "at what time" and "the reason that" a specific learning strategy is used.
What is conditional knowledge?
400
Use a textbook introduction activity
What activity can teachers implement at the beginning of the school year to help their students be more comfortable using their textbook?
400
Use a direct informed and explanatory approach.
What is the most valid means of teaching students?
400
An example used by the author to clarify difficult abstractions.
What is a text example?
400
Split-Page
What notetaking format is most commonly used to help students reduce the amount information they take in and to see the big picture?
500
Declarative, Procedural and Conditional
What are the three different types of strategic knowledge that a teacher must address?
500
The Model who demonstrates how learning strategies are used.
What is the most important role of the instructor when teaching learning strategies?
500
Give assignments that ask students to integrate particular strategies with their learning of the content.
What is the best way to get students to complete homework?
500
They do not adjust their reading rate to optimize their comprehension.
What is the most common mistake students make when reading?
500
Synthesis Journal
What notetaking format is most useful in content area classrooms where discussion predominates?