DIDACTIC STRATEGIES

Procedures and resources

used by teachers

to promote meaningful learning and facilitate the processing of new content in a deeper and more conscious way

Learning Strategies

DEFINITION

Set of strategies used by students in order to put into practice what they have learned.

Used by

Students in order to put into practice what they have learned.

Having a prior knowledge of something, and to relate it to something that is going to be learned

allows

The student to make a process of association that facilitates the acquisition of this new knowledge in a easier way

Learning is significant when there is a cognitive change,

since

The learning process is achieved in the long term through previous learning experiences.

RECIPROCAL QUESTIONING

Askig questions with a classmate

in order to

Reinforce what have been studied.

THE PAUSE PROCEDURE

The goal of these pauses is encourage students to discuss about what they have been studying or to clarify key points covered.

in that sense

The teacher should stablish some questions or problems for students to work on them.

THE MUDDIEST POINT TECHNIQUE

is about

Asking students to write about specific topics that are not clear for them. Topics that are difficult or confusing to undertand.

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Helpingstudents to reflect on what they need to review or reinforce to adquire significant knowledge.

ROATING CHAIR GROUP DISCUSSIONS

Making students to listen in a dinamic way to selected speakers who make a summary of the topics studied previously.

Students guide the class discussion by rotating roles and selecting the following speaker once and again.

Students reinforce what they have studied by listening to their peers

Talking about the different topics or concepts explained by the teacher in the class.

Teaching Strategies

DEFINITION

Master plan or some procedures used by teachers in order to facilitate students’ meaningful learning.

Teachers develop a series of activities in a conscious way in order to reach established competencies within a course.

The use of these strategies involves high quality and interactive teaching practice.

MODELING

What students should do to complete a task

showing

a visual way what they need to do exactly to obtain a goal.

MISTAKES

This is about showing students what they should not do.

FEEDBACK

They need to know how they are doing through an oral or written comment

for

Helping them to develop a better individual or team work.

COOPERATIVE LEARNING

students feel motivated to learn one from another.

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they develop some relevant skills such as communication, critical thinking and solving problems ones.

EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING

Through the use of simulations, experiments or games students can learn by doing.

for

Practicing what they learn inmediately. Also, they can reflect and discuss about what they have been learning in the class.

STUDENT-LED CLASSROOM

A student could teach a topic in a very different way from the assigned teacher.

a student could explain something in an easier way that a teacher could do it.

Students like learning from their peers and teachers should sometimes give them the opportinity to experiment that.