Teaching Strategies Table

1. Mastery Model	Is the emphasis on acquisition of knowledge and skills through practice, repetition, drill and memorization?
New American Lecture Strategy	Do you want to provide the students with information that they can understand and remember the important ideas? Do you want something that includes a hook, visual organizer, and questions using all four styles?
Graduated Difficulty Strategy	Do you want students to assess their own ability, select the task they deem appropriate to their readiness level and then determine the knowledge and skills they need to move to the next level?
2. The Understanding Model	Is the emphasis on developing student’ analytical thinking abilities to encourage them to formulate concepts and generalizations. They will observe data, identify patterns, formulate concepts and generalize conclusions. Do you want to encourage a diversity of ideas?
Concept Attainment Strategy	Do you want to challenge the students to compare and contrast attributes of positive and negative examples, hypothesize the essential attributes, test their hypothesis and articulate the concept?
Mystery strategy	Do you want the content presented as a Mystery to be solved? Do you want students to answer a question requiring reflection, analysis and interpretation of data and logic?
3. The Self-Expressive Model	Is the emphasis on creative and divergent thinking, artistic expression, values and analysis of moral dilemmas? Do you want to generate solutions, promote curiosity, insight, imagination and metaphorical thinking to see things in a different way?
Inductive learning strategy	Do you want students to use specific information, compare and contrast attributes, to group and label things, to develop generalization and formulate your own concepts?
Metaphor strategy	Do you want to engage students in metaphorical activity, to stimulate creativity to produce solution reflecting new and different ways of thinking about a topic?
4. The Interpersonal model	Is the emphasis on student interaction to develop communication skills through group-focused learning where the primary information is from the students and the teacher?
Peer Practice / Reciprocal Learning strategy	Do you want to students to practice previously presented skills and develop thinking processes needed to become competent problem solvers by working in pairs as well becoming more effective in a helping situation?
Jigsaw strategy	Do you have a lot of material to cover and want students’ to assume direct responsibility for their own and their teammates learning by making them an expert on teacher selected material?