Teaching tools
- 1. TEACHING TOOLS Xon Vilahur i Godoy Abril 2012
- 2. TEACHING STRATEGIES Which learning strategies best contribute to students becoming engaged and active citizens involved in achieving environmental, social and economic sustainability? The Seven Strategies Learning Locally - Community as Classroom Integrated Learning Acting on Learning Real-World Connections Considering Alternative Perspectives Inquiry Sharing Responsibility for Learning with Students http://www.sac.sa.edu.au/Library/Library/Topics/thinking_skills/thinking.html http://www.sac.sa.edu.au/Library/Library/Topics/thinking_skills/thinking.html
- 3. TEACHING STRATEGIES 1. Journals and logs . Math journals and logs can be particularly helpful for helping students understand challenging procedures and formulas. 2. Demonstrations The student might show others how to do a process. 3. Products The student might make products or objects that are the end result or product outcome connected to a learning unit that is happening at school. 4. Problem-solving processes Problem solving is the starting point. and is the basic tool for all students. 5. Graphic organizers The student might be asked to use visual formats to gather, analyze, and evaluate information. http://www.innovative-tutoring.com/curriculum.html
- 4. TEACHING STRATEGIES 6. Projects The student might construct and create meaningful long-term projects that incorporate several intelligences. The student is taught how to organize a project and will engage the students in a variety of individual and projects focused on improving different skill sets. 7. Exhibits The student might research a topic and prepare an exhibit to display what he or she has learned. 8. Performances The student might develop a show of visual arts products for their peers, parents, or their classroom, or for audiences such as senior citizens and school neighbors.
- 5. LEARNING STRATEGIES http://student.norquest.ca/onlinelearning/ninequick/sitemap.htm
- 6. LEARNING STRATEGIES Manage TIME Remember, we all have 24 hours in a day, 168 hours in a week. ‘Time is Money’, so spend your time wisely. Goal setting is the process of determining what your goals are, relating them to your long term intentions and making them: SMART: Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic & Timely. . http://student.norquest.ca/onlinelearning/ninequick/sitemap.htm
- 7. LEARNING STRATEGIES SCORER is a strategy that helps you do better on tests and quizzes by assisting you to use your knowledge and test time more effectively to obtain the highest mark possible. Tests and quizzes give you the opportunity to respond to questions with information that you know. Your mark on a test gives you feedback in two areas: 1. How much you know about the questions on the test (content). 2. How effectively you can write tests (test taking skills).. http://student.norquest.ca/onlinelearning/ninequick/sitemap.htm
- 8. LEARNING STRATEGIES http://student.norquest.ca/onlinelearning/ninequick/sitemap.htm
- 9. LEARNING STRATEGIES RAPPP R Read your goals A Ask yourself questions while you read. P Put what you read into your own words and feelings. P Picture what you read. Draw a picture in your mind and on paper. P Present what you have read to someone else or to yourself. http://student.norquest.ca/onlinelearning/ninequick/sitemap.htm
- 10. GENRE TYPES Genre types are text types which learners meet in the school curriculum and which have specific purposes, structures and language features. Every genre has a number of characteristics which make it different from other genres. Types of genre include: discussion; explanation; instruction; proposal; letter; narrative; persuasion; recount (to retell events, usually in chronological order, e.g. autobiography, setting up an experiment); report; review. http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/articles/six-types-task-tbl
- 11. GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS Helpful way to organize information because: 1. They help you understand how things go together. 2. They help you remember information better. 3. They make it easier to write your final draft. 4. They help organize any type of writing. http://all.creately.com/Free-K12-Education-Templates
- 13. GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS Cluster Diagrams – good for descriptive writing, especially when you have a lot of different ideas. Charts – good for writing directions of how to do something, or for keeping a lot of different ideas in categories. Venn Diagrams – good for comparing things that are the same and different. Story Maps – good for retelling books, plays or stories. Cause and Effect Diagrams – good for explaining how something happened. Outlines – good for big topics with lots of main ideas and details. Outlines are also good for persuasive writing. Timelines - good for telling the order of how things happen in time. http://library.thinkquest.org/J001156/writing%20process/sl_graphic_organizers.htm? tqskip=1
- 14. CAUSE-EFFECT
- 17. SONGS, FILMS, CARTOONS,DRAMA “Music, art, drama and sports – there are what kept me involved when I was at school. And these very things, that make a teacher’s and a student’s job easier and more rewarding, are what’s been cut from curriculum across the country.” Tom Chapin. So, let’s song!