Effective Teaching Strategies |
o Introduce advanced organizer
§ Tell students what they will be doing and learning that day § Review previously learned material Here, a video will describe how to successfully implement advance organizers into your classroom. o Describe and model § In this stage, the teacher will describe the new activity that explains WHY the skill is important to learn. It is important to talk through the thought process of solving these problems; in other words, think aloud the process. o Guide student practice § Here, the students and the teacher will solve through problems together. This involves high level of engagement and communication between the students and the teacher. This communication can be written or verbal. o Provide independent practice § Once you have guided the students through problems, the students are now responsible for performing the problem independently without any input or teacher support. The students should not have too many questions or concerns at this stage. If they do, the teacher will need to resort back to guided practice for more mastery. o Offer appropriate feedback § There are many ways to offer feedback, some of which include assessments, board work, check lists, portfolios, CBM (curriculum-based measurements), etc. o Include maintenance and generalization activities § Word Problems- While word problems are the most difficult types of problems for students to master, they are the types of problems that will be related most to their life. Just about every math problem that we encounter in every day life, it a word problem, (e.g. figuring out a total on a menu, counting money to buy an item, etc.) |
Teach Concepts. |
Something to consider when teaching algebraic
problems is to teach the student’s concepts rather than simply memorizing the
algorithm. This will teach students how to solve the problem and why a specific
technique is used for solving a certain equation. This may help students to
generalize what they learned for future encounters with more complex problems.
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