Strategies For Improved Student Learning

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Strategies For Improved Student Learning
Garry Day
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Productive Pedagogies
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• Intellectual Quality

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Plus, Minus, Interesting
Details Helps consider all sides of a matter
before a decision or commitment is made. Used in
assessment, choice and design situations.
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Plus, Minus, Interesting
Employees may choose any 5 days of the week to
work.
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Round Robin
Details All members contribute their ideas to a
scribe who writes on a single sheet before
passing it on after a specified period of time.
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Round Robin
The Uses of a Table Tennis bat
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Freeze Frame
Details In small groups, students depict their
understanding of a concept by providing 3
snapshots of the concept. The snapshot must be
silent and motionless. Can be used to check
prior knowledge or understanding at the end of
the unit.
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Catering for Difference
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Ridiculous Key
Details Make a ridiculous statement that would
virtually be impossible to implement, and then
attempt to actually justify it. Challenge
students to justify its worth.
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Ridiculous Key
The Government should purchase new cars for all
drivers over 35.
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Corners
Details Students work in co-operative groups in
different corners of the room to discuss a topic.
Findings are then presented to the class.
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Corners
50km/h speed zones should be mandatory in all Qld
towns and cities
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Supportive Classroom Environment
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Sound Off
Details Students use concepts or facts to write
2 sets of rhyming lines of approximately 7-9
syllables each. These are sung to the march of
a sound off. Line 1 (echo) Line 2 (echo) Line 3
(echo) Line 4 (echo) sound off (echo) 1,2,3,4
(sound off)
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Sound Off
Playground duty is lots of fun..
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Our solar system is really old 9 planets and
really cold Some are big and some are
small Hundreds of years to see them all
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Silent Card Shuffle
Details To sequence, classify or match cards in
a preferred order. Students sequence silently
using non verbals, circle and observe, return and
refine verbally.
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Sequencing The Digestive Process
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Connectedness
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Reverse Listing/key
Details Reverse thinking by developing lists of
things that cannot be done. A creative way of
challenging students to think in different
directions. Reverse the normal way of asking for
information.
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List 10 things that you could not photograph
Name 10 things that robots cannot do
List five sounds that you have never heard
Name ten things that you could not clean
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Random Word
Details Students use stimulus pictures to modify
an everyday object 1. Choose a stimulus
picture 2. Brainstorm and write a list of all
the ideas or things that you associate with the
picture. 3. Choose an everyday object and one
idea from your list to spark an innovative
modification of the object.


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