Characteristics of effective Strategy instruction
· Collaboration
Teacher provides as needed support to students until they are able to execute, monitor, and modify strategies on their own.
· Individualization
Strategies and instruction should be tailored to a students’ capabilities.
Students need to develop their own self- instructions in their own words.
Students need to progress through the stages of strategy acquisition at their own pace.
If a student masters the strategy quicker then their peers, they can be tutors.
· Mastery- based Instruction
Students should not proceed from one stage to the next until they are ready to do so.
Teachers may return to any stage at any time with the criteria for progression set higher as the student recycles through the stages.
· Anticipatory Instruction
Generalization and maintenance of strategies should be planned for and initiated from the very beginning of instruction.
Think ahead to avoid or be ready for difficulties as they arise even if they’re not just the ones you anticipated.
Teacher provides as needed support to students until they are able to execute, monitor, and modify strategies on their own.
· Individualization
Strategies and instruction should be tailored to a students’ capabilities.
Students need to develop their own self- instructions in their own words.
Students need to progress through the stages of strategy acquisition at their own pace.
If a student masters the strategy quicker then their peers, they can be tutors.
· Mastery- based Instruction
Students should not proceed from one stage to the next until they are ready to do so.
Teachers may return to any stage at any time with the criteria for progression set higher as the student recycles through the stages.
· Anticipatory Instruction
Generalization and maintenance of strategies should be planned for and initiated from the very beginning of instruction.
Think ahead to avoid or be ready for difficulties as they arise even if they’re not just the ones you anticipated.