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Strategies and Professional Development

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Looking for ways to brush up on your teaching techniques? Searching for a strategy to engage your students in a new way? Wondering what in the world kids need to know about a given topic? This is your page! Links below are divided into content and pedagogy. Use the content links to access resources for expanding your own knowledge about topics you've been asked to teach. Use the pedagogy links to find explanations and samples for an variety of strategies for creating an engaging, learner-centered environment in your classroom.

 

Looking for a specific strategy that's not on our list, or have a new strategy you'd like to share? Use our contact page to let the appropriate member of our Office of Social Studies staff know about it.

 

Pedagogy

 

The following strategies may be useful in creating a more engaging and responsive classroom. Use the links below to refresh your memory of the details of familiar strategies or to explore new ideas.

 

Discussion Strategies

Conversations Across Time

Meeting of the Minds

Philosophical Chairs

Pinwheel Discussion

Socratic Seminar

SPAR

Speed Dating

Tag Team Debating

World Cafe

Structured Academic Controversy

Tug of War

Silent Debate

 

Reading and Document Analysis Strategies

Analyzing Political Cartoons

Annolighting

APPARTS

Collaborative Annotation

Frame of Reference

HAPPY and HIPPO

Key Concept Synthesis

OPTIC

RAPPS

Quartering

Tableaux Vivant

TACOS

See-Wonder-Think

 

Critical Thinking and Brainstorming

Can of Worms

Carousel Brainstorming

Discussion Webs

Futures Wheel

Janus

Six Degrees of Separation

Six Thinking Hats

Venn Diagrams

College Preparatory Strategies

Visible Thinking

 

Simulations

Historical Simulations

Mock Trial

Memorial Service

Shark Tank

Speed Dating

Dinner Party

 

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