High Expectations are key to being an effective teacher. This post provides a definition and 13 strategies. My top strategy is #1 which any teacher can use right away.
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Guided practice is an example of a learning scaffold. It involves the ‘I do, We do, You do’ steps which slowly release control over the task to students.
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A cognitive tool is an educational technology that helps learners achieve higher-order thinking. Here are 5 great examples of cognitive tools you can use!
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Prompting is an instructional strategy to guide a learner’s behavior. It can help a student learn a new skill or engage in a desired goal behavior. Prompting examples include the teacher making a verbal comment, displaying a gesture, modeling, or using a visual prompt such as pointing to a photograph or video. Sometimes a child
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Peer learning occurs when students learn collaboratively. Examples of peer learning include: (1) Jigsaw method. (2) Reciprocal Teaching. (3) Collaborative Groups.
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Peer feedback refers to an activity where colleagues or students receive comments and suggestions from their peers or classmates. It is believed to be beneficial for helping both the giver and receiver of feedback to garner new insights, widen their thinking, correct errors, learn through teaching, and see how others approach tasks in different ways.
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Analytical thinking refers to the process of breaking down complex information into components and understanding how they are interconnected. The process is systematic, methodical, and leads to the identification of cause-and-effect relationships among the various factors. Analytical thinking also consists of several other cognitive processes and skills. For instance, Spaska et al. (2021) identify the
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Systematic desensitization is a behavior therapy technique designed to treat anxiety-related disorders through sensory adaptation. The technique helps an individual replace an anxiety response to specific stimuli with a relaxation response. The technique emerges from both classical and operant conditioning schools of behavioral psychology, which holds that exposure to stimuli can alter our beliefs and
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Tacit knowledge refers to things we know as a result of our personal experience. It is developed over time based on directly experiencing situations and crystalizing what is learned into a broader understanding. It is the knowledge experts have learned over time without actually being taught or even thinking too hard about it. Examples of
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A target behavior is the specific actions of an individual that are selected for modification in behavioral psychology. Examples of target behaviors include: misbehavior in a classroom, talking over others, unprovoked yelling, and oppositional defiance. The individual whose behavior is being addressed is often either a student who may have a behavioral issue or an
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