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For information on Bridges to Practice
training in your area, please contact:
Dr. Rochelle Kenyon, Project Director
rkenyon721@aol.com
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Take a look
at the following chart and think about a lesson that you have just
taught to your class. Did the lesson have the following content,
design, and usefulness characteristics? Which ones did you include?
Which did you omit? Was the lesson successfully taught to all of
the students in your classroom?
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Effective
and Efficient Strategies
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Features
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Characteristics
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Content
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- Leads
to a specific and successful outcome
- Is
sequenced in a manner that leads to an efficient approach
to the task
- Cues
students to use specific cognitive strategies
- Cues
students to use metacognition (critical thinking behaviors)
- Cues
students to select and use appropriate procedures, skills,
or rules
- Cues
the student to take some type of overt action
- Can
be performed by the student in a limited amount of time
- Is
essential and does not include unnecessary steps or explanations
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Design
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- Uses
a remembering system
- Uses
simple and brief wording
- Begins
with action words
- Uses
seven or fewer steps
- Uses
words that are uncomplicated and familiar to students
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Usefulness
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- Addresses
common but important existing problems that students are
encountering in their settings
- Addresses
demands that are encountered frequently over an extended
time
- Can
be applied across a variety of settings, situations, and
context
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