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Subject: [NIFL-4EFF:2989] Re: In Search Of Effective Pedagogy In Teaching
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Thank you, Sarah, for reminding me of effective "teaching strategies" in your email listed below. When I was in the classroom, I often found some adult learners lacking in the very strategies/tools that would help them learn, while others had devised their own tools ("hooks") to help them remember. It always amazed me when adult learners were asked "tell me what you know about ........." before instruction began. Constructing on this previous knowledge just made good teaching practice to me. Which brings up two other EFF teaching points, explicit (demonstrating) and purposeful (in context of what they want to do - improve their reading skills so they can pass the GED, get a better job, help their children succeed in school, etc.) And talking out loud about your own thinking process when using a strategy/tool - what a powerful technique for teaching how to "think about thinking."
Carolyn Beiers
Family Literacy
Greenville County Schools, SC
> Sarah Beaman-Jones <sbeaman@webster.edu> wrote:
> Date: 2005/04/18 Mon PM 04:11:12 EDT
>
>The trick for teaching a student to increase their comprehension is to make these strategies very
> easy to use and very accessible. An example of how to introduce a strategy
> would be to first demonstrate, talking out loud about your thinking process,
> then have small groups practice and compare their results, then analyze in
> large groups and then have individuals practice.
> It is important not to introduce more than one strategy at a time.
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