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Strategies 3 & 4
Strategies 5 & 6

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Setting Objectives & Providing FeedbackHow often have you started out teaching a new concept and when you complete your lecture and ask the students what have they learned, they don't always hit the nail on the head as to the important parts you were trying to convey? To provide a richer learning environment as well as expressing the objectives you hope to teach will help the students focus more on the topic. They will know what to focus on. It is recommended that teachers should post their content objectives and language objectives clear and readable from where any student sits. Remember to read out loud your objectives. Having the objectives on the board allows a convenient tool to use for recapping your lecture as well.
Providing Feedback Giving students timely feedback on their work demonstrates your commitment to helping them improve and grow in their skills and knowledge. I also have students give themselves feedback on what they are learning. I do this when they create a vocabulary card and on it they indicate at what level they're currently at on their knowledge of the word.
Generating and Testing Hypotheses, Systems Analysis, & Problem Solving When identifying, organizing, or analyzing information the use of graphic organizers makes a clearer view of the overall picture down to the details of a process you are working with. It always benefits the student to model or provide an example of designing the format of creating a flowchart. Examples range from designing self-assessments, planning a problem Solving worksheet, to experimental inquiries and historical investigations.
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