Use our student-centered teaching strategies to strengthen your students’ literacy skills, nurture critical thinking, and create a respectful classroom climate. You can implement these strategies with any academic content.
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3-2-1
Gauge students’ understanding and interest in a topic by asking them to write down takeaways, questions, and something they enjoyed about a text, film, or lesson.
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Alphabet Brainstorm
This brainstorming exercise is a quick way to generate students’ thoughts, measure prior knowledge, or check learning.
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Analyzing Images
Lead students in a critical analysis of an image that enhances their observational, interpretive, and critical thinking skills.
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Annotating and Paraphrasing Sources
Teach students to carefully read material by having them underline key words, write margin notes, and summarize main ideas.
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Anticipation Guides
Get students thinking about the ideas and themes that they’ll encounter in a unit or a text.
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Assigning Roles for Group Work
Make your students’ group work more effective by giving each member a specific role to play.
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Barometer: Taking a Stand on Controversial Issues
Structure an active class discussion in which students express their opinions by standing along a continuum.
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Big Paper: Building a Silent Conversation
Students have a written conversation with peers and use silence as a tool to explore a topic in depth.
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Bio-poem: Connecting Identity and Poetry
Students clarify aspects of their identity or the identity of a historical or literary figure by writing poems that focus on deeper elements of personal makeup like experiences, relationships, hopes, and interests.
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Café Conversations
Students practice perspective-taking by representing the point of view of an assigned personality in a small-group discussion.
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Character Charts
Provide students with a graphic tool to record and organize information about characters in a text.
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Character Maps
Help students engage with a fictional or historical character by creating an annotated illustration.
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