Teaching Learning Strategies and Study Skills
Three Approaches to Teaching Learning Strategies
Reductionist Approach - This idea focuses on the idea that to understand or explain something complex, it must be analyzed and divided into simpler, smaller, or more understandable components. Example - Cognitive Behavior Modification
Constructivist Approach - This approach is based on the student's active involvement with new experiences in the context of previous experiences, values, needs, beliefs, and other factors that remain unknown to observers.
Functionalist Approach - This approach is based on the idea that learning and the approaches used to promote learning depend on the individual, the place, and the time; it blends the principles of the reductionist and constructivist approaches.
No matter the approach used in teaching strategies, the following nine steps should be followed in the systematic teaching of any strategies to students:
1. Present and obtain a commitment to learn.
2. Describe the strategy.
3. Model the strategy.
4. Verbally rehearse each of the steps of the strategy.
5. Provide controlled practice.
6. Provide advanced practice and feedback.
7. Confirm acquisition of the strategy.
8. Provide opportunities for and monitor generalization.
9. Conduct ongoing evaluation of the strategy instruction process.
Three Approaches to Teaching Learning Strategies
Reductionist Approach - This idea focuses on the idea that to understand or explain something complex, it must be analyzed and divided into simpler, smaller, or more understandable components. Example - Cognitive Behavior Modification
Constructivist Approach - This approach is based on the student's active involvement with new experiences in the context of previous experiences, values, needs, beliefs, and other factors that remain unknown to observers.
Functionalist Approach - This approach is based on the idea that learning and the approaches used to promote learning depend on the individual, the place, and the time; it blends the principles of the reductionist and constructivist approaches.
No matter the approach used in teaching strategies, the following nine steps should be followed in the systematic teaching of any strategies to students:
1. Present and obtain a commitment to learn.
2. Describe the strategy.
3. Model the strategy.
4. Verbally rehearse each of the steps of the strategy.
5. Provide controlled practice.
6. Provide advanced practice and feedback.
7. Confirm acquisition of the strategy.
8. Provide opportunities for and monitor generalization.
9. Conduct ongoing evaluation of the strategy instruction process.