SHS Teacher Mentor Program The Most Effective Teaching Strategies 1/29/08 By Greg Anthony and Sue Matthies
Rank These in Order from the Most Effective Cooperative learning Cooperative learning Generating and testing hypotheses Generating and testing hypotheses Homework and practice Homework and practice Identify similarities and differences Identify similarities and differences Nonlinguistic representations Nonlinguistic representations Questions, cues and advance organizers Questions, cues and advance organizers Reinforcing effort and providing recognition. Reinforcing effort and providing recognition. Setting objectives and providing feedback Setting objectives and providing feedback Summarizing and note taking Summarizing and note taking
Answers Identify similarities and differences Identify similarities and differences Summarizing and note taking Summarizing and note taking Reinforcing effort and providing recognition. Reinforcing effort and providing recognition. Homework and practice Homework and practice Nonlinguistic representations Nonlinguistic representations Cooperative learning Cooperative learning Setting objectives and providing feedback Setting objectives and providing feedback Generating and testing hypotheses Generating and testing hypotheses Questions, cues and advance organizers Questions, cues and advance organizers
Amount of Transfer Teach Others/Use Learning Practice & Real Application Discussion Group Demonstration Audio Visual Reading Lecture 90% 75% 50% 30% 20% 10% 5% Learning Activity Retention William Glasser, The Quality School
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