Learning Styles / Explanation

Tools / Strategies

Mastery

Key Question:   WHAT?

What do they value:

Mastery and competence. Remember and perform specific skills.

Effective Teaching Strategies:

• tangible results

• projects that have immediate, practical use

• immediate feedback (rewards, privileges, etc.)

• specific examples (quotes)

• lots of details

• drill and practice

• one-step at a time directions

• active involvement

• clear organization

• clear expectations of task and purpose.

• Direct Instruction

• Demonstrations

• Competitions

Thinking Verbs for Critical Analysis

• Assess

• Categorize

• Check

• Determine

• List

• Organize

• Prepare

• Sequence

• Take Notes

• Trace

Memorize

(To recite verbatim)

Memorize and recite a poem

Sketching to remember important ideas from text

Game show

• Jeopardy  (Burke)--This is a Power Point file. It contains a hidden slide (#4) with student instructions that you can view using the slide sorter.
• $1,000,000,000,000,000 pyramid
• Want to be a millionaire

Quick and Quiet Books --teacher procedures and student worksheet.

Help Me Review (Active--students up and moving around)

People Search (Active--students up and moving around)

Around the Room and Back Again

Brain Dump --Transparency

(to methodically view in order to note attributes or happenings)

Observation chart

(To put items in order)

Living timeline

• Research event
• line up in order of event
• S: describe their event and explain how this event led to the next

Using a Flow Chart to Show Steps in a Process or Sequence

Cycle Organizer

Sequence Chart I

Sequence Chart II

Understanding

Key Question:  WHY?

What do they value:

Understand and Comprehend. Reason with information

Effective Teaching Strategies:

• studying relationships

• planning and carrying out project of own making and interest

• arguing or debating a logical point

• problem-solving that requires collecting, organizing, and evaluating data

• concepts

• ideas

• data

• opportunities to examine data and explain things

• formulating ideas

• Inquiry

• Concept formation

• Debate

• Problem Solving

• Independent Study

• Essays

• Logic Problems

Thinking Verbs for Critical Analysis:

• Analyze

• Classify

• Compare

• Critique

• Deduce

• Evaluate

• Imply

• Infer

• Interpret

• Reason

• Resolve

• Weigh

A Guide to Critical Thinking (Johnson)

(To recognize and explain how one event causes/caused or influences/influenced by another.)

Cause and Effect --Graphic Organizer

(What groups can I put these into? What are the rules governing these groups?)

Organize your Thoughts

Classification Tool

Synthesis Cards

Sort Cards

(How are these alike? How are they different?)

Compare / Contrast chart

Venn Diagram

Cluster / Web/ Map I

Cluster / Web / Map II

Analyzing Characters / Historical Figures

Analyzing an Event

SIFT Poetry Analysis

(What is another way of looking at this issue?)

Vee Heuristic

(What is the support for this argument? What are the limitations of this argument?)

Finding Evidence to Support My Inference

Just the Facts

Collect the Details

Prove It

Support your Claim

Topic, Sub-topic, Details

Identifying main ideas and details

Identifying Main Ideas and the Functions of Details

(If this is true, what else must be true? What proof do you have?)

(What conclusions/generalizations can you draw from this, and what support do you have for these conclusions?)

(To make a judgment based on a set of criteria and/or standards)

(To use logic to make an assumption; to read between the lines; to use data to reach a conclusion; to extend information or understanding beyond what is explicitly stated).

Making Inferences: It Says, I Say, So...

Making Inferences: Using evidence

Making Inferences about a Character

Making Inferences about Word Meanings

Deciding between more than one solution

(What or whom would be the best? Which one has the most or least?)

Interpersonal

Key Question:   SO WHAT?

What do they value:

Personal Involvement and engagement with others. Relationships. Personal respond to topic

Effective Teaching Strategies:

• studying about things that directly affect people's lives

• personal attention and encouragement

• teamwork

• emotional hooks

• personal stories

• metaphors

• opportunities to share

• assignments that encourage personal response and relating assignment to self.

• Team games

• Learning Circles

• Role Playing

• Group Investigation

• Peer Tutoring

• Personal Sharing

Thinking Verbs for Critical Analysis

• Appraise

• Appreciate

• Decide

• Deliberate

• Personalize

• Prioritize

• Rate

• Relate

• Value

(Put in order of importance)

Consensus Groups -- Transparency

Self-Expressive

Key Question: WHAT IF?   

What do they value:

Adapt, modify, extend, explore, create. Make something new and different.

Effective Teaching Strategies:

• create and use imagination

• develop original creations

• plan and organize work in own way

• multi-task

• seek new / original solutions to problems

• discuss real problems to find real solutions

• creative self-expression

• individual and group exploration

• allow to make new connections

• Divergent Thinking

• Metaphors

• Creative Art Activities

• Imagining

• Open-ended Discussions

• Imagery

• Creative Problem Solving

Thinking Verbs for Critical Analysis:

• Apply

• Combine

• Conceive

• Experiment

• Gauge

• Generalize

• Imagine

• Integrate

• Picture

• Predict

• Systematize

(What is the probability of this happening, and what support do you have for this conclusion?)

Predicting--Stop students a key point in the lesson and ask them to write/discuss what they think will happen next.

Predict with Evidence: A strategy for developing the skills of prediction

Compose a Simile (Ditch)

Illustrated Simile (Ditch)

Random Similes

Four Box Synectics