HYSHigh Yield Strategies

1. Identifying Similarities and Differences 2. Summarizing and Note Taking 3. Reinforcing Effort and Providing

Recognition 4. Homework and Practice 5. Nonlinguistic Representations 6. Cooperative Learning 7. Setting Objectives and Providing Feedback 8. Generating and Testing Hypotheses 9. Cues, Questions, and Advance Organizers

I. What Will Students Learn? 1. Setting Objectives

II. Which Strategies Will Provide Evidence of Student Learning?

2. Providing Feedback 3. Providing Recognition

III. Which Strategies Will Help Students Acquire and Integrate Learning?

4. Cues, Questions, and Advance Organizers 5. Nonlinguistic Representation 6. Summarizing and Note Taking 7. Cooperative Learning 8. Reinforcing Effort

IV. Which Strategies Will Help Students Practice, Review, and Apply Learning?

9. Identifying Similarities and Differences 10. Homework and Practice 11. Generating and Testing Hypotheses

Setting Objectives

Recommendations…

1. Set learning objectives that are specific but flexible

2. Allow students flexibility in personalizing the learning objectives or goals

3. Communicate the learning objectives or goals to students and parents

4. Contract with students to attain specific learning objectives or goals

Add a dose of technology…

Word processing

KWHL chart

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The subject is the book Using Technology with Classroom Instruction that Works What do you know about it? (K) What do you want to learn about it? (W) How do you plan to learn it? (H) (L) will come later…

Why?

3. Communicate the learning objectives or goals to students and parents

Why?

4. Contract with students to attain specific learning objectives or goals

Word processing “Learning Goals Sheet”

My Learning Goals Our class learning goal for this unit:

Complete the following sentences to set your personal learning goals:

I know… But I want to know… I want to know more about…

Data Collection Tools…

Collecting data guidelines… Consider including some engaging background

information on the topic Be sure to include open-ended questions that will

reveal any misconceptions that you might need to address

Keep your survey short enough to ensure a large response and give your students credit for completing it

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Identifying Similarities and Differences

Web resources

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Summarizing

Recommendations…

Teach students the rule-based summarizing strategy

Use summary frames Teach students the reciprocal teaching

strategy

AutoSummarize

Summarizing with Auto Summarize Tools>Auto Summarize Then you have 4 options… 1. Highlight the key points 2. Insert an executive summary at the top of the

document 3. Insert an executive summary in a new

document 4. Hide everything except the executive

summary without leaving the document

Providing Recognition

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Sound recorder

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