Learning Strategy & Tool "Fair"
Overview
To promote acceptance of learning diversity, students explore learning tools and strategies to see how they work and why they and others might use them. Using a science fair model, tools are presented either as self-exploratory or with students explaining their purposes.
Example: Use This Strategy in the Classroom
Watch how elementary students participate in an instrument petting zoo to try playing different musical instruments. As a model of exploration, students have the opportunity to discover their own interests and challenges through experimentation, which could be applied to learning strategies and tools.
Design It into Your Product
Additional Resources
Additional examples, research, and professional development. These resources are possible representations of this strategy, not endorsements.
Factors Supported by this Strategy
More Cooperative Learning Strategies
When peers work cooperatively to practice writing letters, words, and eventually longer sentences, their Foundational Writing Skills, including spelling and writing quality, improve.
Flexible grouping is a classroom practice that temporarily places students together in given groups to work together, with the purpose of achieving a given learning goal or activity.
As students walk through stations working in small groups, the social and physical nature of the learning supports deeper understanding.
As students work with and process information by discussing, organizing, and sharing it together, they deepen their understanding.
When students explain to others, they deepen their understanding and gain confidence in their learning.
Respectful redirection, or error correction, outlines a clear and concise way that educators can provide feedback on behaviors that need immediate correction, in a positive manner.
Students develop reading skills by listening to and speaking with others in informal ways.
