The Strategic Teacher: Selecting the Right Research-Based Strategy for Every Lesson

The Strategic Teacher offers a repertoire of strategies designed and proven to meet today€s high standards and reach diverse learners. Twenty reliable, flexible strategies (along with dozens of variations) are organized into these groups of instruction:

 

·        mastery style to emphasize the development of student memory;

·        understanding style to expand students€ capacities to reason and explain;

·        self-expressive style to stimulate and nourish students€ imaginations and creativity;

·        interpersonal style to help students find meaning in the relationships they forge as partners and team members, united in the act of learning; and

·        four-style strategies that integrate all four styles.

 

To guide teachers in delivering content to students, the authors started with the best research-based teaching and learning strategies and created a tool called the Strategic Dashboard. The dashboard provides information about each teaching strategy in a concise, visual profile; it is also designed to document how one incorporates current, highly respected research into instructional plans.

For each strategy, the book offers the following information:

• a brief introduction to the strategy;
• an example of a teacher using the strategy in a classroom;
• the research base supporting the strategy and how the strategy benefits students;
• how to implement the strategy using a list of clear steps;
• guidance through the planning process, providing steps, examples, and suggestions for designing superior lessons; and
• additional tools, strategies, and resources for adapting and expanding the use of each strategy.

 

The authors have combined their years of research and practice to deliver reliable, high-impact, flexible teaching and learning strategies grounded in current, highly regarded research to teachers at all levels of experience.