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Teaching Strategies

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.

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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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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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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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Use K-W-L charts to help students assess what they already know about a topic and what they want to learn.

K-W-L Chart template that can be printed out and used in the classroom

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Use the 3-2-1 strategy to gauge students’ understanding and interest in a topic.

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Develop a classroom contract to create a community of mutual respect and inclusion.

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Educators will create a practice of student journaling to help their students critically examine their surroundings and make informed judgments.

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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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Students will become “experts” on a topic and then share their new knowledge with peers.

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Teaching Strategies

Discover Versatile and Effective Instructional Strategies

Teaching Strategies

Discover Versatile and Effective Instructional Strategies

Example Teaching Strategies

Text-to-Text, Text-to-Self, Text-to-World

Identity Charts

Socratic Seminar

K-W-L Charts

3-2-1

Contracting

Journals in a Facing History Classroom

Gallery Walk

Jigsaw: Developing Community and Disseminating Knowledge

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