CITW Strategies II

Cues, Questions, and Advance Organizers 

      The importance on this strategies is to get the student prepared for upcoming work. Cues help prepare the student for the upcoming lesson. It teaches the students what they already know and provide new information on the topic. Questions are what allow students to access previously learned information on a topic and is used to check on what the students already have a little knowledge on. Advance organizers are used to help students use their prior knowledge to learn new information.These are usually brought up in the beginning of the lesson to draw the attention of the student to identify the main points of the lessson. This was my presentation and I think we got the message across the room on the importance and the effectiveness of this strategy. 

Cooperative Learning

The importance of this strategy is to get students to work in groups to accomplish a certain task given by the teacher. This can help develop team building skills and leadership skills as well. Cooperative Learning can help students reflect on newly acquired knowledge and share with the rest of the group on their perspective. This strategy is effective because most students would rather learn the material as a group rather alone having a difficult time understanding the content. The activity was writing an autobiography poem. It was a fun activity and it helps us know each other more.

Non-Linguistic  Representation .

The importance of this strategy is about imagery. Imagery is expressed as mental pictures or physical sensation. Physical sensations include the five senses. This strategy helps students learn with use of visual aids such as pictures. This can be useful to students in the future because the picture in their mind will remind them of what they have covered over the lesson. Some ways that non-linguistic representation is used is by: Graphic organizers, Make physical models or manipulatives, Generate mental pictures, Create pictures, illustrations, and pictographs, Engage in kinesthetic activities.