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.
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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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