Advantages: This strategy helps promote critical thinking and can help a student identify vocabulary that they know and don’t know. This can be used in many different ways, for example the entire class, small groups, and for individual work. 

Disadvantages: It might be too simple for some students, some of the concepts might need more work put into them. It can be more vocabulary based rather than critical thinking. 

Advantages: These charts build a great environment in the classroom. Make thinking visible by having vocabulary or processes that can help engage the students thinking. Students can add ideas to an anchor chart to apply new learning for the classroom.

Disadvantages: I think it convinces the students to look outside rather within their thinking. It can make children rely on posters for their learning. 

Advantage: These guides are loved by teachers because of the ability to engages the students in new information by challenging them to think critically about what they know and don’t know. 

Disadvantages: Does not really help with grade assessments. Has to be very tailored to exactly what the teacher wants and teaches within the lesson.

Advantages: This strategy has so many advantages, most important it serves “a window on the soul” letting the student realize what they really know when talking to each other. Letting students talk to each other to hear their own opinions about different subjects. 

Disadvantages: People cannot really remember what they thought when they were taking particular actions. Sometimes students get off topic when talking to each other out loud. 

Advantages: Teachers can use this strategy in so many different ways and subjects. Using this in literacy to help organize different but alike concepts. Overall this helps so much with students who are struggling in organizing their notes. Can use this in math classes also for different strategies when the students are in class. 

Disadvantages: Making sure a student has the correct information in each category can get difficult. They can become very complicated to deal and they have limited expressive power. What this means is there are so many pieces of information that can’t be represented perfectly. 

Disadvantage: Students may misplace their sticky notes from the books so they get unorganized very easily. 

Advantages: This type of pattern organizes information by each topic that is taught. Dividing it up by topic into good and bad parts, or pros and cons. Seeing both sides of an issue without taking one side. 

Disadvantages: Sometimes there are not enough comparisons to use when comparing and contrasting. Students might use differences that don’t make even sense to make it a good comparison. 

Advantages: This is such an easy was to help the teacher know or not if a student caught onto the lesson. Also helps with what to reteach a student when the lesson is over. Its short and simple and easy to ready for every student.

Disadvantages: Might not be in depth enough to show a teacher if the student is not catching onto the lesson. Another would be, it might not show accuracy on what the student knows what to do and not what to do. 

 

Advantages: This strategy can help students stay organized during lessons and is a helpful tool to study from. Students can either work in groups or even alone to get the information correctly on the paper. Helps students organize their thoughts, test prior knowledge, and relearn the material. 

 Disadvantages: The students might get confused if there are multiple words that start with the same letters. If students are working in groups they could possibly get off track and take too much time trying to decide what word to use for each letter. 

Advantages: The 3-2-1 strategy helps the teacher check for the students understanding after a lesson that was taught. Helps students have their own review on the main topics taught during the lesson. 

Disadvantages:  Students who struggle might guess when given this prompt at the end of a lesson. They might rush through the sheet and not fully think of what was taught that day.