Teaching Tips

Teaching TIps

10/2 or "Chunk 'n Chew" Learning Strategy

This teaching/learning strategy allows space for students to identify gaps in their understanding. Working in small groups during the 2-minute process time lets students ask questions with peers rather than raising their hand in front of the whole class.

10/2 is a helpful approach to lecturing in that it creates space for students to remain engaged, ask questions, and participate in learning rather than passively memorizing information or disengaging from the material.

10/2 supports the brain science research on “chunking” in which short term memory is improved by grouping information into “chunks.” (see https://thedecisionlab.com/reference-guide/psychology/chunking)

By focusing in short spurts on important knowledge and understandings, lessons are delivered in small, 10-minute, “chunks.” During this time, students listen and possibly take notes. Then, prompted by a reflective question to focus thinking, students are given 2 minutes to “chew” on the information by verbally sharing with a classmate or writing individually.

Small Teaching (Lang 2021)

Learning research shows that asking students to use their existing knowledge to make predictions before they are taught new course content can increase student learning. Take a few minutes at the beginning of class to active their prior knowledge!

–Small Teaching (Lang, 2021)

Have students engage in retrieval practice to improve retention. Use a low-stakes 3-question quiz at the end of class to practice vocabulary.

Multi-genre Approach

Multi-genre Approach, https://writing.colostate.edu/gallery/multigenre/introduction.htm

List of genres, https://writing.colostate.edu/gallery/multigenre/genrelist.html

Student Response Cards

Jigsaw Activity

3-2-1 Teaching Strategy

The 3-2-1 strategy is a simple format by which students can record their own comprehension and summarize their learning. It also gives teachers the opportunity to identify areas that need re-teaching, as well as areas of student interest.

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Muddiest Point

Muddiest point is a classroom assessment technique (C.A.T.) that gives students opportunities to point out what they are most confused about and clearly explain what is muddy.

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Think-Pair-Share

Wise Feedback

The wise-feedback strategy appears deceptively simple but is powerful in application. Wise feedback prevents the student from misconstruing teacher comments as negatively biased by proactively offering an alternative, positive explanation: the teacher is giving detailed, ambitious feedback because the standards of the course are high and the teacher is confident that the student has the skills and motivation to meet them.

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Clarification Pause

Fish Bowl Strategy

Fish bowl is a strategy for organizing medium- to large-group discussions. Students are separated into an inner and outer circle. In the inner circle or fishbowl, students have a discussion; students in the outer circle listen to the discussion and take notes.

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