Strategy categorizing Difficulty Strategies Time of implementing for Category Name students you ever been” “Have Social Ice-breaker Treasure hunt Beginning of the semester Easy Motivation Self disclosure — Demographic grouping Events of instruction (revised) Just suppose, what if? Creative Thinking Easy Gaining Talking/speaking stick attention Motivation Student interest survey Easy AGO: aims, goals, and Informing the objectives Easy Critical thinking learner of the KWL/KWHL objective Fat and skinny question Medium Fish bowl Stimulating recall Summing Critical thinking Easy of prior learning up/nutshell/reviews KWL/KWHL Presenting the Visual thinking (i.e. Critical thinking Medium stimulus graphic organizing) Metaphorical Creative thinking Providing Medium thinking/Synectics learning PMI: pluses, minuses, and During guidance (a cue interesting things the or strategy to Critical thinking Socratic questioning Medium semester promote Visual thinking (i.e. encoding) graphic organizing) Creative role Easy play/Simulations Facilitating Creative writing and rehearsal Creative thinking storytelling (i.e. Tell a Tall (Eliciting Tale, whack card Medium performance; etc.) Assessing Six Hats/Slip of performance) Visual thinking (i.e. Critical thinking Medium graphic organizing) Providing Motivation Positive strokes Easy feedback Creative thinking Checker-boarding Easy Fish bowl Helping recall PMI: pluses, minuses, and (Assessing Critical thinking interesting things Easy performance) Summing up/nutshell/reviews
Strategy categorizing Time of implementing Strategies Difficulty for students Category Name Beginning of the semester Social Ice-breaker — Motivation “Have you ever been” Treasure hunt Self disclosure Demographic grouping Easy During the semester Events of instruction (revised) Gaining attention Creative Thinking Just suppose, what if? Talking/speaking stick Easy Motivation Student interest survey Easy Informing the learner of the objective Critical thinking AGO: aims, goals, and objectives KWL/KWHL Easy Fat and skinny question Medium Stimulating recall of prior learning Critical thinking Fish bowl Summing up/nutshell/reviews KWL/KWHL Easy Presenting the stimulus Critical thinking Visual thinking (i.e. graphic organizing) Medium Providing learning guidance (a cue or strategy to promote encoding) Creative thinking Metaphorical thinking/Synectics Medium Critical thinking PMI: pluses, minuses, and interesting things Socratic questioning Visual thinking (i.e. graphic organizing) Medium Facilitating rehearsal (Eliciting performance; Assessing performance) Creative thinking Creative role play/Simulations Easy Creative writing and storytelling (i.e. Tell a Tall Tale, whack card etc.) Six Hats/Slip of Medium Critical thinking Visual thinking (i.e. graphic organizing) Medium Providing feedback Motivation Positive strokes Easy Helping recall (Assessing performance) Creative thinking Checker-boarding Easy Critical thinking Fish bowl PMI: pluses, minuses, and interesting things Summing up/nutshell/reviews Easy