Instructional Strategies for Engaging Learners

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Instructional Strategies for Engaging Learners

• Reading Center Training
• Theme Connections to the Classroom
• Instructional Planning

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Focusing On the Familiar

• One of the most effective ways to make
  information meaningful is to associate or compare
  the new concept with a known concept, to hook the
  unfamiliar with something familiar.
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• Pat Wolfe (2001)

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Activating Strategies

• The purpose of an activating strategy is to focus
  learning by activating prior knowledge. This can
  be done by activating sensory receptors sight,
  sound, smell, taste, touch. It can also be
  achieved by tapping in to students' emotions.

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Cognitive Strategies

• The purpose of cognitive strategies is 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 ability to process information.

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Rehearsal

• Rehearsal performs two functions
• Maintains information in short-term memory.
• Mechanism by which we transfer information to
  long-term memory.

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Information Processing Model
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Summarizing Strategies

• Summarizing strategies are used 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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• No matter how well planned,
• how interesting, stimulating, colorful or
  relevant the lesson,
• if the teacher does all the
• interacting with the material,
• the teacher's -- not the students --
• brain will grow.
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• Pat Wolfe (1996)