What are effective teaching practices?
7 Effective Teaching Strategies For The Classroom
- Visualization Bring d ull academic concepts to life with visual and practical learning experiences, helping your students to understand how their schooling applies in the real-world
- Cooperative learning
- Inquiry-based instruction
- Differentiation
- Technology in the classroom
- Behaviour management
- Professional development
What does it mean to elicit student thinking?
Eliciting Student Thinking is a methodology defined by the National Center on Universal Design of Learning as “the instructional decisions, approaches, procedures, or routines that teachers use to accelerate or enhance learning according to the goal of instruction based on learner variability in the context of the task
How do you get students to explain their thinking?
1) As the student is explaining their thinking or their answer, record the main key words they say in a word bank of sorts Then, restate to the student what you heard them say, and point to each word as you say it Finally, have them record their thoughts using some or all of the key words you recorded for them
In what ways do you collect evidence of student thinking?
(1) Eliciting evidence through activating prior knowledge (2) Eliciting evidence through academic dialogue (3) Eliciting evidence through questioning (4) Eliciting evidence through observation and analysis of student work
Which type of questions elicit higher thinking skills?
Higher-order questions put advanced cognitive demand on students They encourage students to think beyond literal questions Higher-order questions promote critical thinking skills because these types of questions expect students to apply, analyze, synthesize, and evaluate information instead of simply recalling facts
What are questioning techniques?
The 8 essential questioning techniques you need to know
- Closed questions (aka the ‘Polar’ question) Closed, or ‘polar’ questions generally invite a one-word answer, such as ‘yes’ or ‘no’
- Open questions
- Probing questions
- Leading questions
- Loaded questions
- Funnel questions
- Recall and process questions
- Rhetorical questions
How do you encourage higher order thinking?
Strategies for enhancing higher order thinking
- Take the mystery away
- Teach the concept of concepts
- Name key concepts
- Categorize concepts
- Tell and show
- Move from concrete to abstract and back
- Teach steps for learning concepts
- Go from basic to sophisticated
What is the highest level of critical thinking?
Empathy
What are the 5 levels of learning?
The following explanations are derived from the 1984 edition of Bloom’s Handbook One
- Knowledge This initial level involved recalling basic facts, processes, and methods, or patterns and structures
- Comprehension
- Application
- Analysis
- Synthesis
- Evaluation
- Remember
- Understand
How do you use Bloom’s taxonomy?
How to apply Bloom’s Taxonomy in your classroom
- Use the action verbs to inform your learning intentions There are lots of different graphics that combine all the domains and action verbs into one visual prompt
- Use Bloom-style questions to prompt deeper thinking
- Use Bloom’s Taxonomy to differentiate your lessons
What are the 4 learning domains?
There are four; the physical, the cognitive, the social and the affective The latter three are not to replace learning in the physical domain, but to support it
What are the 7 domains of learning?
What Are The 7 Domains Of Early Childhood Development?
- Gross Motor This is one of the most basic of the domains that your child is already learning
- Fine Motor
- Language
- Cognitive
- Social/Emotional
- Self Help/Adaptive
- Morals/Values
- Want Your Child To Succeed?