- Learning is enhanced when schools encourage parents to stimulate their children’s intellectual development.
- Students learn more when they complete homework that is graded, commented upon and discussed by their teachers.
- Students who are actively focused on educational goals do best in mastering the subject matter.
- Direct teaching is most effective when it exhibits key features and follows systematic steps.
- Showing students the relationships between past learning and present learning increases its depth and breadth.
- Giving students some choice in their learning goals and teaching them to be attentive to their progress yield learning gains.
- Teaching one student or a small number with the same abilities and instructional needs can be remarkably effective.
- For subject-matter to be learned step by step, thorough mastery of each step is often optimal.
- Students in small, self-instructing groups can support and increase each other’s learning.
- A variety of instructional techniques adapting lessons to individual students and small groups raises achievement.
Surprising Things Learned:
Many studies show that direct teaching can be effective in promoting student learning.
Questions:
How can I incorperate all of these strategies into my own daily teaching?
