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Clara Bowles and Marty Winston are two parapros at South High School. Both have had years of experience in classrooms. This fall they enrolled in a community college course on instructional strategies. The instructor gave them the following assignment.
Assignment
The crosswalk below shows various instructional strategies and learning needs. Complete it by placing X’s in cells. Put X’s in the cells showing which strategies listed match the needs listed. Strategies are in rows. Needs are in the columns. Not all cells will have X’s, of course.
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Needs/Strategies |
Orienting to a lesson |
Seeing a visual representation of a concept |
Understanding cause and effect |
Structuring study time |
Performing well on tests |
Identifying the features of a story |
Writing about a process |
| Learning targets | |||||||
| Advance organizers | |||||||
| Concept maps | |||||||
| Story maps | |||||||
| Fishbone charts | |||||||
| Venn diagrams | |||||||
| Crosswalks | |||||||
| T charts | |||||||
| Study skills | |||||||
| Metacognitive strategies | |||||||
| Infographics | |||||||
| Test-taking skills |
Based on what you learned by working with the materials in this module, how would you complete the crosswalk?