Teaching Strategies

students obtain information from a variety of sources, and they gather, process, wrestle with, think about, and ultimately solve problems and produce new knowledge using that information

• Focused Note Taking

• Graphic Organizers

• Summarizing

• Interactive Notebooks

give students tangible models to use to generate ideas or structure their writing

• Focused Note Taking

• Graphic Organizers

• Summarizing

• Interactive Notebooks

crucial to students’ understanding of a source because it requires learners to sift through the information, sort out the big ideas from the less significant details, consider how the pieces fit together, and communicate the big idea in several succinct sentences

• Focused Note Taking

• Graphic Organizers

• Summarizing

• Interactive Notebooks

a learning structure that helps students organize and archive their learning, and serves as evidence of learning and a reference tool

• Focused Note Taking

• Graphic Organizers

• Summarizing

• Interactive Notebooks

allow students to write about content at any point in time during the teaching and learning cycle in a low-stakes way

• Quickwrites

• Annotation

• One-Pager

• Socratic Seminar

determine the purpose for reading a piece of text, identify important information through circling and underlining, record connections in the margins, and take note of comprehension gaps and confusing concepts

• Quickwrites

• Annotation

• One-Pager

• Socratic Seminar

a collage combining visual and textual elements that represent the student’s processing and thoughtful response to a learning experience

• Quickwrites

• Annotation

• One-Pager

• Socratic Seminar

collaborative, inquiry-based discussion designed to engage students in deep thinking

• Quickwrites

• Annotation

• One-Pager

• Socratic Seminar

built on a prompt to which contradictory positions exist; participants address these positions through deep, academic discourse in a structured, formal process.

• Philosophical Chairs

• Questioning

• Carousel Brainstorm

• List, Group, Label

at the core of deep thinking is the creation of questions that drive students to learn content in a more meaningful way

• Philosophical Chairs

• Questioning

• Carousel Brainstorm

• List, Group, Label