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Use our student-centered teaching strategies to strengthen your students’ literacy skills, nurture critical thinking, and build a respectful and collaborative classroom community. These strategies can be paired with any academic content.
Discover Versatile and Effective Instructional Strategies
Every classroom is different, and every student is unique. Our teaching strategies can be easily adapted for your classroom context and are designed to nurture student’s individual strengths and learning styles. Whether you want to encourage group participation, help students connect emotionally with a subject, or spark more engagement through classroom activities, you'll find plenty of ideas in our library of proven instructional strategies.
Featured Teaching Strategies
Explore some of our most popular and effective teaching strategies. Many feature classroom-ready handouts that you can print or share on Google Classroom for free.
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Text-to-Text, Text-to-Self, Text-to-World
Use text-to-text, text-to-self, and text-to-world comparisons to help students connect ideas in a text to their own lives, current events, and history.
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Identity Charts
Use identity charts to help students consider the many factors that shape their own identity and that of groups, nations, and historical and literary figures.
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Exit Tickets
Use exit tickets to assess students’ understanding, monitor their questions, or gather feedback on your teaching.
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Socratic Seminar
A Socratic Seminar invites students to facilitate a discussion in order to work together toward a shared understanding of a text.
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K-W-L Charts
Use K-W-L charts to help students assess what they already know about a topic and what they want to learn.
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Contracting
Develop a classroom contract to create a community of mutual respect and inclusion.
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Journals in a Facing History Classroom
Educators will create a practice of student journaling to help their students critically examine their surroundings and make informed judgments.
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Gallery Walk
A gallery walk activity gets students moving as they explore a range of documents, images, or student work displayed around the classroom.
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Jigsaw: Developing Community and Disseminating Knowledge
Students will become “experts” on a topic and then share their new knowledge with peers.
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3-2-1
Use the 3-2-1 strategy to gauge students’ understanding and interest in a topic.
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Character Maps
Help students engage with a fictional or historical character by creating an annotated illustration.
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Head, Heart, Conscience
This strategy uses reflection prompts to help students consider a complex or emotional topic through the lenses of head, heart, and ethics.