for Engaging Learners
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Here you will find several ideas for
activating learning, strategies for helping
students process and retain information, and
ways for you to have your students summarize
what they have learned. |
Activating Strategies
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Purpose: To activate students' prior
knowledge through the use of engaging
strategies designed to focus learning
*Can be modified and used as summarizing
strategies |
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Purpose: To provide a structure for
learning that actively promotes the
comprehension and retention of knowledge
through the use of engaging strategies that
acknowledge the brain's limitations of
capacity and processing |
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Purpose: To promote the retention of
knowledge through the use of engaging
strategies designed to rehearse and practice
skills for the purpose of moving knowledge
into long-term memory
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Additional Resources:
A Handbook for Classroom Instruction that Works by Robert Marzano
A Handbook of Content Literacy Strategies: 75 Practical Reading and Writing Ideas by Elaine C. Stephens & Jean E. Brown
Interpreting our Heritage by Freeman Tilden
