1. Setting Objectives and Providing Provide students with a direction Feedback for learning and information about how well they are performing relative to a particular learning objective so they can improve their performance.
2. Reinforcing Effort and Providing Provide students with abstract
Recognition tokens of recognition or praise for their accomplishments related to the attainment of a goal. 3. Cooperative Learning Provide students with opportunities to interact with one another in ways that enable their learning. 4. Cues, Questions and Advance Enhance students ability to Organizers retrieve, use and organize what they already know about a topic.
5. Non-linguistic Representations Enhance students ability to
represent and elaborate on knowledge using mental images.
6. Summarizing and Note Taking Enhance students ability to
synthesize information and organize it in a way that captures the main ideas and supporting details. 7. Assigning Homework and Extend the learning opportunities Providing Practice for students to practice, review and apply knowledge. 8. Identifying Similarities and Enhance students understanding differences of and ability to use knowledge by engaging them in mental processes that involve identifying ways in which items are alike and different.
9. Generating and Testing Enhance students understanding
Hypotheses of and ability to use knowledge by engaging them in mental processes that involve making and testing hypotheses. THE NINE CATEGORIES OF RECAP INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES 1. Setting Objectives and Providing Feedback 2. Reinforcing Effort and Providing Recognition 3. Cooperative Learning 4. Cues, Questions and Advance Organizers 5. Non-linguistic Representations 6. Summarizing and Note Taking 7. Assigning Homework and Providing Practice 8. Identifying Similarities and differences 9. Generating and Testing Hypotheses The nine (9) categories can be divided into three (3) groups: 1) creating a positive environment for learning, 2) helping students develop understanding and 3) helping students extend and apply knowledge
Creating the Environment for Learning
Goodwin (2011) describes teachers who create a conducive environment for
learning as warm and empathetic and establish a sense of community within the classroom where they respect students and students respect them and one another.
Essential in creating a favorable learning atmosphere is a growth mind-set
where teachers words and actions make it clear that student achievement depends on hard work and effort and is not cast in stone by past performance. (Dean, et al, 2012) Setting Objectives Four recommendations for setting objectives Set learning objectives that are specific but not restrictive. Communicate the learning objectives to students and parents. Connect the learning objectives to previous and future learning. Engage students in setting personal learning objectives. Make them own the learning objectives. Providing Feedback Recommendations from Ceri B. Dean, et al. (2012) Provide feedback to make students understand what was need to do next. Provide feedback in time to meet students needs. Feedback should be criterion-referenced. Feedback should make students see their performance in relation to the expected outcome or the learning target and not in relation to the classmates performance. Engage students in the feedback process. This way, they are made to reflect on their own performance and exchange feedback with peers. Reinforcing Effort
Teach student that SUCCESS is within their
control because it comes as a result of their effort not because of other people or of luck.
Providing Recognition
Promote a mastery-goal orientation
Providepraise that is specific and aligned with expected performance and behaviors. Cooperative Learning
In the layers of a complex world, the students
of today need to possess not only intellectual capabilities but also the ability to function effectively in an environment that requires working with others to accomplish a variety of tasks. - Thomas Friedman (2006) Learning atmosphere is more favorable when students work together rather than compete and work against one another. Elements Element of the Cooperative Learning Purpose Model Positive Interdependence Ensure that success by individual promotes success among other group members. Face-to-face promotive Interaction Individuals encourage and activate efforts to achieve and help one another learn Individual and Group Accountability Ensure that all members contribute to achievement of the goal and learn as individuals Interpersonal and Small-Group Skills Ensure that all members clearly understand effective group skills Group Processing Promote group and individual reflection for maintenance of group effectiveness and success.