Teaching Learning Strategies

Teaching learning strategies

How do I begin strategies instruction? • Without strategies instruction  students focus more on what they learn and not how. • Drawing up a plan.

What procedure should I use to teach strategies? • The goal of learning strategies: • Make our students independent learners that can use strategies in different contexts. • 5 phases of instruction to teach strategies.

1. Preparation • Activate the students' background knowledge about the topic and the strategy.

2. Presentation • Present the content of the lesson and the strategy. • To do this, you will want to: Name the strategy. Explain how to use it. Tell when to use it. Model it. Explain its importance.

3. Practice • Now the students have the opportunity to practice using the strategy. • Success with learning strategies depends upon whether students find them useful.

4. Evaluation • Students evaluate which learning strategies work best for them on certain tasks and why. (self-evaluation)

5. Expansion • Students learn to transfer the use of strategies to other tasks.