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Subject: EDUCNumber: 793
Title: Instructional Strategies That Work
Level: GraduateMedium: Text-based
Semester: On-goingUnits: 3
Cost: $360Register: Online Registration (LEI courses)
Description: 
This course explores instructional strategies that have proven to have a major impact on student achievement. Increase your skills and comfort level with the following strategies: cooperative learning, questioning techniques, visual tools, graphic organizers, structuring homework, helping students understand what they read, building students' vocabulary, improving note taking, and utilizing higher order thinking skills.
Objectives: 
  1. Participants will explore the nine categories of instructional strategies that are most apt to maximize student learning, as indicated by the research. These categories include: cooperative learning, questioning techniques, visual tools, graphic organizers, structuring homework, helping students understand what they read, building students' vocabulary, improving note taking, utilizing higher order thinking skills.
  2. Participants will learn specific strategies in each of these instructional categories.
  3. Participants will apply their learning by designing activities for their classroom that incorporate the strategies explored in the course.
Textbook: 
Instructor: Kyle Pederson, Joe Cotter, Dr. William Martin
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