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102 Teaching Strategies Bundle - Light

This package contains 20 cognitive and co-operative learning strategy videos and associated graphic organisers/templates but no Professional Development assessment or certificates. Its best use is as raw material to use as instructional aids for students with the addition of example graphic organisers/templates that can be used as hand outs. (Annual ...

103 Teaching Strategies Bundle - All Inclusive

This package contains

• 20 cognitive and co-operative teaching strategies ( this is the combined courses 210 - 305 below)
• instructional videos
• graphic organisers/templates
• 20 hours of professional development that can be completed at your own pace.

It also provides you with the raw material to use as instructional aids for students with the addition of ...

215 Teaching Strategy - KWHL

Bloom's Level - Remember (Foundation Thinking)          Strategy Type - Cognitive          PD - 1 Hour

The KWHL is a metacognition tool that requires students to think about what they Know (K), what they Want to know (W), How they will find out (H) and what they have Learned (L). It is ...

220 Teaching Strategy - 3:2:1 RIQ

Bloom's Level - Understand (Foundation Thinking)          Strategy Type - Cognitive          PD - 1 Hour

3 Recalls, 2 Insights, 1 Question - Because students can only effectively process one-way lecture style information for 12 -- 15 minutes, time should be set aside regularly for them to internalise and make sense of ...

225 Teaching Strategy - POE

Bloom's Level - Apply (Foundation Thinking)         Strategy Type - Cognitive          PD - 1 Hour

P.O.E. is a classic strategy for any investigative work. This tool is both a developmental or formative record of learning and a summative sample at the conclusion of a project or investigation. This strategy can be used ...

230 Teaching Strategy - Icon Prompt

Bloom's Level - Analyse (Higher Order Thinking)          Strategy Type - Cognitive          PD - 1 Hour

This is an excellent strategy to engage students in debatable topics. Most topics and issues that are discussed in the classroom revolve around a few key elements. Icon Prompt is a valuable scaffolding technique that enables ...

235 Teaching Strategy - T-Chart

Bloom's Level - Analyse (Higher Order Thinking)          Strategy Type - Cognitive          PD - 1 Hour

The T-Chart is a simple structure that allows learners to extract and record information or data from a text or any form of stimulus material and present it visually on the board or in notebooks. ...

240 Teaching Strategy - Double Bubble Map

Bloom's Level - Analyse (Higher Order Thinking)          Strategy Type - Cognitive         PD - 1 Hour

The Double Bubble Map is an excellent tool to compare and contrast any two characters, policies, objects, stories or viewpoints. The graphic layout of the Double Bubble Map allows students more writing space than similar "compare ...

245 Teaching Strategy - SWOT Analysis

Bloom's Level - Analyse (Higher Order Thinking)          Strategy Type - Cognitive          PD - 1 Hour

SWOT Analysis (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) is the ideal tool for analysing any issue, proposal, practice or organisation. Too often, people make up their minds on a topic without consideration and therefore react too emotionally. Good ...

250 Teaching Strategy - Y-Chart

Bloom's Level - Analyse (Higher Order Thinking)          Strategy Type - Cognitive          PD - 1 Hour

Y-Chart - This tool encourages students to report not only what is obvious but rather to go far further, thus displaying deeper understanding.  It is used in all the higher-order thinking levels, looking for Analysis, then ...

255 Teaching Strategy - PCQ

Bloom's Level - Analyse (Higher Order Thinking)          Strategy Type - Cognitive          PD - 1 Hour

PCQ (Pros, Cons, Questions) is a simple three and/or four column critical thinking tool which encourages learners to create a more substantial response to analytical questions, proposals, idea or suggestions. Pros and Cons have been with ...

260 Teaching Strategy - Decision-Making Matrix

Bloom's Level - Evaluate (Higher Order Thinking)          Strategy Type - Cognitive          PD - 1 Hour

DMM (Decision-Making Matrix) This strategy is highly effective for comparing and contrasting (analysing) and then selecting or deciding (evaluating) between two or more items, proposals, plans, texts, ideas, characters, films etc. This strategy is excellent not ...

265 Teaching Strategy - Elimination Draw

Bloom's Level - Evaluate (Higher Order Thinking)          Strategy Type - Cognitive          PD - 1 Hour

Often in our classrooms, lists are generated. The Elimination Draw is an evaluation tool which uses a simple tournament-style draw to help students establish the 3-4 most important elements, factors, values or items from a list ...

270 Teaching Strategy - MAS (Modify:Add:Size)

Bloom's Level - Design (Higher Order Thinking)          Strategy Type - Cognitive          PD - 1 Hour

MAS (Modify:Add:Size) - is a valuable creative tool that assists students with redesigning items such as everyday objects, familiar stories, pieces of music or games, so that students can create marketing plans, write creative stories, compose ...

275 Teaching Strategy - Word Association

Bloom's Level - Design (Higher Order Thinking)          Strategy Type - Cognitive          PD - 1 Hour

Word Association - Too often students complain that they are not creative. Too often we use recycled ideas as so-called 'creative ideas'. This strategy assists learners to generate new ideas or solutions via associations with a ...

280 Teaching Strategy - Image Association

Bloom's Level - Design (Higher Order Thinking)          Strategy Type - Cognitive          PD - 1 Hour

As students are highly visual, the Image Association strategy is a useful tool to encourage divergent, convergent and creative thinking by extending their visual imaginations. Its purpose is to generate new ideas or creative solutions ...

285 Teaching Strategy - Problem/Solution

Bloom's Level - Design (Higher Order Thinking)         Strategy Type - Cognitive          PD - 1 Hour

Often, what we perceive as the problem is in fact the manifestation of several other underlying problems. This strategy is excellent for analysing the underlying causes of a problem or issue in the first place, and ...

290 Teaching Stratagy - Judge Jury

Bloom's Level - All Levels          Strategy Type - Co-operative          PD - 1 Hour

This is a co-operative learning strategy that involves students arguing a case on a debatable issue in the setting of a court. It requires two students to analyse the issue from opposite perspectives and then prepare and present ...

295 Teaching Strategy - 1:4:P:C:R

Bloom's Level - All Levels          Strategy Type - Cooperative          PD - 1 Hour

The 1:4:P:C:R (Publish:Circle:Refine) tool is an extremely effective co-operative process which calls for creative thinking, critical reflection, risk-taking, editing and drafting -- and a sense of humility! (Annual Licence)

300 Teaching Strategy - Round Robin & Hot Potato

Bloom's Level - All Levels          Strategy Type - Cooperative          PD - 1 Hour

These are very powerful brainstorming activities that involve students working co-operatively to generate new ideas, lists or new data in a short period of time. A Round Robin involves the whole class working on the same topic, whereas ...

305 Teaching Strategy - Silent Card Shuffle

Bloom's Level - All Levels          Strategy Type - Cooperative          PD - 1 Hour

The Silent Card Shuffle is a co-operative strategy that has several applications, such as sequencing, classifying, matching and mapping. For matching activities, such as relating words to definitions, one should always offer a few extra definitions as distractors. ...