Module:

Using Learning Strategies: Instruction to Enhance Student Learning

Assessment

Please complete the items below. If you have difficulty, go back and review the Perspectives and Resources pages in this module.

1. Suggest at least three ways that strategies can help students in the classroom.
2. Compare the characteristics of strategic learners with those of non-strategic learners.
3. List the six research-validated stages of SRSD. What aspects of each would you emphasize as the most important?
4. Imagine you are a fifth-grade teacher. Mary Ann, a student in your class, understands why she should use an instructional strategy that you are teaching, but she is not yet ready to use the strategy independently. Explain how you would help prepare her to do so.
5. You've followed along as Mr. Carter introduced the four self-regulation strategies in a way that was appropriate to the needs of his students. Can you describe an alternate way to introduce the self-regulation strategies?