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What do you need to do to quickly develop critical thinking? What teaching methods to use? These questions will appear in the head after the desire to improve the quality of decisions made. The approach to training your thinking is complex and time-consuming. For this reason, many give up halfway.

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Incorporating cooperative learning into lesson plans

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Incorporating cooperative learning into lesson plans

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David and Roger Johnson have conducted numerous research studies and their approach highlights a process, or steps, teachers can apply to implement cooperative learning with any subject matter.

1.       Positive independence.

2.       Individual accountability.

3.       Face-to-face interaction.

4.       Teaching collaborative skills.

5.       Processing group skills

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Strategies when working with students identified under IDEA

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Strategies when working with students identified under IDEA

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1.       Speak clearly.

2.       Repeat, clarify, paraphrase.

3.       Use gestures, intonation, and other nonverbal ways of communication.

4.       Use pictures, objects, graphs, maps, and charts.

5.       Use hands-on activities.

6.       Check frequently for understanding.

7.       Differentiate instruction.

8.       Adjust lesson plans to adhere to different learning styles.

9.       Provide assistance or accommodations when necessary.

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1.       Early in the school year, have students build a list of things they would like to learn about in each major curriculum area to which they will be exposed.

2.       Prior to a unit, have students develop a K-W-L chart.

3.       Allow individual students or groups of students to choose topics they would like to study.

4.       Incorporate culturally relevant content.

5.       Allow students to make choices before, during, and after instructional activities.

6.       Teach students how to order films on topics that interest them.

7.       Teach students how to invite guest speakers to discuss a topic of interest.

8.       Create a unit on biographies.

9.       Create opportunities for structured sharing.

10.   Have students develop special-interest days or weeks.

11.   When involving students in writing, do not always assign a topic.

12.   Use learning logs.

13.   Allow student to develop their own spelling list.

14.   Develop future plans.

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When the key academic needs of a student are met, there's an increase in student motivation and learning.

1.       Understand and value learning goals

2.       Understand the learning process

3.       Be actively involved in the learning process

4.       Have learning goals related to their own interests and choices

5.       Receive instruction responsive to their learning styles and strengths

6.       See learning modeled by adults as an exciting and rewarding process

7.       Experience success

8.       Have time to integrate learning

9.       Receive realistic and immediate feedback that enhances self-efficacy

10.   Receive appropriate rewards for performance gains

11.   Experience a supportive, safe, well organized learning environment