2. TEACHING STRATEGIES
Which learning strategies best contribute to students
becoming engaged and active citizens involved in
achieving environmental, social and economic
sustainability?
The Seven Strategies
Learning Locally - Community as Classroom
Integrated Learning
Acting on Learning
Real-World Connections
Considering Alternative Perspectives
Inquiry
Sharing Responsibility for Learning with Students
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3. TEACHING STRATEGIES
1. Journals and logs . Math journals and logs can be particularly helpful for
helping students understand challenging procedures and formulas.
2. Demonstrations The student might show others how to do a process.
3. Products The student might make products or objects that are the end
result or product outcome connected to a learning unit that is happening at
school.
4. Problem-solving processes Problem solving is the starting point. and is
the basic tool for all students.
5. Graphic organizers The student might be asked to use visual formats to
gather, analyze, and evaluate information.
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4. TEACHING STRATEGIES
6. Projects The student might construct and create meaningful long-term
projects that incorporate several intelligences. The student is taught how to
organize a project and will engage the students in a variety of individual and
projects focused on improving different skill sets.
7. Exhibits The student might research a topic and prepare an exhibit to
display what he or she has learned.
8. Performances The student might develop a show of visual arts products
for their peers, parents, or their classroom, or for audiences such as senior
citizens and school neighbors.
6. LEARNING STRATEGIES
Manage TIME
Remember, we all have 24
hours in a day, 168 hours in
a week. ‘Time is Money’, so
spend your time wisely.
Goal setting is the process of
determining what your goals are,
relating them to your long
term intentions and making them:
SMART: Specific, Measurable,
Attainable, Realistic & Timely.
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7. LEARNING STRATEGIES
SCORER is a strategy that helps you do better
on tests and quizzes by assisting
you to use your knowledge and test time more
effectively to obtain
the highest mark possible. Tests and quizzes give
you the opportunity to respond to questions with
information that you know. Your mark on a test gives
you feedback in
two areas:
1. How much you know about the questions on the
test (content).
2. How effectively you can write tests (test taking
skills)..
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9. LEARNING STRATEGIES
RAPPP
R Read your goals
A Ask yourself questions while you read.
P Put what you read into your own words
and feelings.
P Picture what you read. Draw a picture in
your mind and on paper.
P Present what you have read to someone
else or to yourself.
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10. GENRE TYPES
Genre types are text types which learners meet in the
school curriculum and which have specific purposes,
structures and language features.
Every genre has a number of characteristics which
make it different from other genres.
Types of genre include: discussion; explanation;
instruction; proposal; letter; narrative; persuasion;
recount (to retell events, usually in chronological order,
e.g. autobiography, setting up an experiment); report;
review.
http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/articles/six-types-task-tbl
11. GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS
Helpful way to organize
information because:
1. They help you understand how
things go together.
2. They help you remember
information better.
3. They make it easier to write
your final draft.
4. They help organize any type of
writing.
http://all.creately.com/Free-K12-Education-Templates
13. GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS
Cluster Diagrams – good for descriptive writing, especially when
you have a lot of different ideas.
Charts – good for writing directions of how to do something, or for
keeping a lot of different ideas in categories.
Venn Diagrams – good for comparing things that are the same
and different.
Story Maps – good for retelling books, plays or stories.
Cause and Effect Diagrams – good for explaining how something
happened.
Outlines – good for big topics with lots of main ideas and details.
Outlines are also good for persuasive writing.
Timelines - good for telling the order of how things happen in
time.
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17. SONGS, FILMS,
CARTOONS,DRAMA
“Music, art, drama and sports – there
are what kept me involved when I
was at school. And these very things,
that make a teacher’s and a student’s
job easier and more rewarding, are
what’s been cut from curriculum
across the country.” Tom Chapin.
So, let’s song!
