CITW Strategies - 2

Cues, Qustions & Organizers :

- Cues are hints for students for them to know what the upcoming lesson will be.

- Questions are for students to figure out what they know & what they do not know.

- Organizers help students understand what they know & what they do not know.

     Cues, Questions & Organizers are all linked together tp help students understand what they will be learning & what they will know. Using all three of this strategies at the beginning of every lesson will help students focus on the topic even more at a better understandable view.

 

Cooperative Learning :

     Drs. David Johnson & Roger Johnson (1999) uses five elements to define cooperative learning which are:\

- Positive Independence

- Face-To-Face Promotive Interaction

- Individual & Group Accountability

- Interpersonal & Small-Group Skills

- Group Processing

 

Non-Linguistic Representation :

     Non-Linguistic Representations help understand a topic by the use of imagery. There are five strategies teachers use to enourage students to create, store & tap on information either mentally or with conrete tools & displays. These strategies are:

- Creating Graphic Oraganizers

- Making Physical Models/Manipulatives

- Generating Mental Pictures

- Creating Pictures, Illustrations & Pictographs

- Engaging in Kinesthetic Activity

     These strategies are powerful because they tap into a students' natural tendency for visual image processing, which helps them construct the meaning of relevant content & skills & have a better capacity to recall it later.