Teaching+Strategies

= = Learning Styes Quiz: Use the quiz below with your students to help them determine their learning style. After the student's learning style is identified, the site offers some brief tips for study ideas for each type learner. = =

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The following information is taken from the Edutopia Website: www.edutopia.org = Core Strategies for Innovation and Reform in Learning =  Edutopia is dedicated to transforming the learning process by helping educators implement the strategies below. These strategies -- and the educators who implement them -- are empowering students to think critically, access and analyze information, creatively problem solve, work collaboratively, and communicate with clarity and impact. Discover the resources, research, experts, and fellow Edutopia members who are changing our schools. Join us in reinventing the learning process! To find out more about // Edutopia // and The George Lucas Educational Foundation, visit the [|"About Us"] section.

[|Comprehensive Assessment]
Effective assessment should measure the full range of student ability -- social, emotional, and academic achievement. Through various measures, including portfolios, presentations, and tests, multiple learning styles are supported.
 * [|Schools That Work: Authentic Assessment at New York City's School of the Future (Video)]
 * [|Guide: Top Ten Tips for Assessing Project-Based Learning]

[|Integrated Studies]
To increase engagement and retention, academic subjects are presented in an interdisciplinary fashion that reflects modern knowledge and society. For instance history, literature, and art can be interwoven and taught through text, images, and sound.
 * [|An Introduction to Integration Studies (Video)]
 * [|Schools That Work: Integrating Art and Politics to Improve High School Engagement]

[|Project-Based Learning]
Long term and student centered, project learning is a rigorous hands-on approach to learning core subject matter and basic skills with meaningful activities that examine complex, real-world issues. Project learning helps students develop and retain useful, working knowledge of subjects that are often taught in isolation and abstraction.
 * [|An Introduction to Project-Based Learning (Video)]
 * [|Schools That Work: Replicating Project-Based Learning Success]
 * [|Research Review: Best Practices and Components of Success]

[|Social and Emotional Learning]
When students work together on project teams, they learn to collaborate, communicate, and resolve conflicts. Cooperative learning and character development supports the social and emotional development of students and prepares them for success in the modern workplace.
 * [|How to Teach Math as a Social Activity (Video)]
 * [|Schools That Work: Social and Emotional Learning in Louisville]
 * [|Research Review: Learning Outcomes and Evidence-Based Programs]

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0099ff; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Teacher Development]
The human touch is the most valuable element in education. Teachers, administrators, and parents play critical roles in coaching and guiding students through the learning process, nurturing students' interests and confidence as learners.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0099ff; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Schools That Work: Teacher Excellence Narrows the Achievement Gap]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0099ff; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|20 Tidbits for New Teachers]

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0099ff; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Technology Integration]
Through the intelligent use of technology, combined with new approaches to education, a more personalized style of learning can be realized.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0099ff; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Guide: Top Ten Tips for Teaching with New Media]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0099ff; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|30 Great Tech Makeovers for the Classroom]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0099ff; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Research Review: Program Recommendations and Tips for Successful Integration]