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Effective Teaching Strategies
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Handout Developed by Jane Cook
EASTCONN Staff Dev. Spec./Literacy & Technology Coach
Mill #1, 3rd Floor
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(860) 455-0707 jcook@eastconn.org Table of Contents

Nine Research-Based Teaching Strategies 1 Identifying Similarities and Differences 1 Summarizing and Note Taking 1 Reinforcing Effort and Providing Recognition 2 Homework and Practice 3 Nonlinguistic Representations 4 Cooperative Learning 4 Setting Objectives and Providing Feedback 5 Generating and Testing Hypotheses 5 Questions, Cues, and Advance Organizers 6
The 10th Effective Teaching Strategy – Non-Fiction Writing 7 Because Writing Matters 7 Non-Fiction Writing 8 Five Key Genres 9 Why children need to learn non-fiction writing 9

Nine Research-Based Teaching Strategies

The information below was taken from a Web site that was created by the Nebraska ESU (Educational Service Unit) Technology Affiliate Group. The site is designed to be used by teachers, providing them with technology resources that match the effective teaching strategies outlined in Classroom Instruction That Works.

Identifying Similarities and Differences

Source: http://manila.esu4.org/instructionalstrategies/stories/storyReader$7

from Classroom Instruction that Works Robert J. Marzano, Debra, J . Pickering, Jane E. Pollock, MCREL, 2001.

Summary of Research on Identifying Similarities and Differences • Guidance in identifying similarities and differences enhances students' understanding of and ability to use knowledge. • Independently identifying similarities and differences enhances students' understanding of and the ability to use knowledge. • Representing similarities and differences in graphic or symbolic form enhances students' understanding of and ability to use knowledge. • Identifying

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