Questioning Strategies: You cannot go past this point until all of the students have grasped the lesson, so you must ensure they understand.
If there is any doubt, reteach the lesson before practice begins.
Do not turn students loose to practice the lesson until you are sure they understand. It might be close to impossible for them to "unlearn" the wrong way.
Use a variety of questions or observations to ensure that each student has grasped the concept to this point. Can they do it on their own? Can they demonstrate this?
Use questions from the lowest to highest of the six cognitive domains (Bloom's Taxonomy).
5. GUIDED PRACTICE
The teacher leads the students through all of the entire process, step by step.
¥ Go through the process with the students, step by step, at least once. Each time, have the students follow along with you.
¥ You might go through the process more than once. If you do, you might do less and less each time, allowing the students to tell you which step is next and/or how to do it, while you observe, correcting, if needed.
¥ If this must be done too many times before the students can do the process without errors, it might be an indication that the teaching steps need to be repeated.
6. CLOSURE: This is the end of the formal teaching process.
¥ Review the lesson and do wrap-up. Go over each point again. This is the "tell them what you told them" step.
¥ Have the students tell you and show you what they have learned in the lesson.
¥ Let the students know that you have reached the end of the lesson.
¥ Help them understand the importance of this information, and how it will be used in future lessons or real-life situations.
7. INDEPENDENT PRACTICE:
Release the student to practice on their own.
¥ There should be sufficient practice for them to adequately grasp the various aspects of the lessons taught.
¥ Schedule parts of this so it can occur three times over the next seven days. This will help with long-term retention of the information/skill.
¥ Failure to do this point could be responsible for the student not retaining the information learned.
8. ASSESSMENT:
Process used to determine if objectives have been met. Use a variety of methods to evaluate.
9. REFLECTION:
Process used by the teacher after the lesson to analyze/critique/evaluate the lesson.