Differentiated Instruction Strategy Blast - Seminar will show successful strategies that differentiate instruction, and motivate ALL students, especially students with special needs in the general classroom. Teachers will discover how to keep learners engaged, to help students with organization and memorization, increase critical thinking skills, and make learning fun and meaningful.
Another strategy for enhancing short term memory because we don't want that information to be gone in two seconds is shared in this video. Ask a student to paraphrase what you just taught. Why? Watch the video to find out.
Many teachers don’t implement stations because they can take a considerable amount of time – and creativity – to put together. By allowing students to teach each other by constructing centers for their classmates, this burden is lifted and students become much more deeply engaged with the material as they think up ideas to teach their classmates. As Becky says, “Their ideas are much better than anything I could have come up with, and they love it because they’re ‘owning’ their products.” By allowing students to teach each other by constructing learning stations, students become much more deeply engaged with the material as they think up ideas to teach their classmates, resulting in better comprehension and memorization.
Many teachers don’t implement stations because they can take a considerable amount of time – and creativity – to put together. By allowing students to teach each other by constructing centers for their classmates, this burden is lifted and students become much more deeply engaged with the material as they think up ideas to teach their classmates. As Becky says, “Their ideas are much better than anything I could have come up with, and they love it because they’re ‘owning’ their products.” By allowing students to teach each other by constructing learning stations, students become much more deeply engaged with the material as they think up ideas to teach their classmates, resulting in better comprehension and memorization.
Given that analytical thinking - analysis, synthesis, understanding of cause and effect, order of operations, etc. requires that students remember sequential information, I looked for ways to make 'sequences' as concrete as possible as well as appropriate for the high school classroom.