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What
are Learning Strategies?
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While some students may excel in
content mastery with no problems, others must utilize specific strategies in
order to become successful. Even students who find no issue with some content
must utilize learning strategies for other content. Learning Strategies are
essentially what the name implies. They are strategies which help students
learn. Specifically, learning strategies are ways in which individuals
organize and use skills in order to learn content or accomplish a specific
skill. Students learn these strategies through a process facilitated by their
teacher which includes a pretest, description of the strategy, modeling,
practice, and a posttest. As students grow and as more is demanded of them,
they may find they rely more on learning strategies than before.
Reference:
Freeman, Jason R. (2004). Learning Strategies. Retrieved from http://www.ldonline.org/article/Learning_Strategies
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Strategy
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Teacher
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Learner
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Interdisciplinary Teaching
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Collaborate with other teachers to
combine multiple contents into one lesson. Work with the other teacher(s) to
most effectively teach the material, and you’re a deeper understanding of
your own content and how it relates to other academic areas.
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Make connections between multiple
content areas, fully participate in activities for each area as well as
combined activities. This strategy helps students understand how different
contents can connect, and helps them to remember information across contents.
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Service Learning
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Appropriately combine lessons and
academic content with some form of service project. Ensure students
understand the connections between the content and service. Supervise as
students complete the project.
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Fully participate in the service
project, making connections to the academic content as you go. Reflect on
what was accomplished and how the content and civic service relate.
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Make Predictions
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Utilize questions to prompt students
as they make guesses as to what may happen next. Guide the discussion, stop
reading at the appropriate places to make predictions.
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Utilizing context clues, make guesses
as to what will happen next. Fully participate in the discussion, and give
reasoning behind your predictions.
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Monitor
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Facilitate and/or prompt student
self-assessment as they work. Utilize tools such as check lists, progress
reports, and graphic organizers.
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Check progress,
comprehension, and production as the task is completed. As you work, be sure
that your work makes sense and is completed in a timely manner.
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