Constructive Teaching Strategies
1. Advance Organizers
An initial statement about a subject to be learned that provides a structure for the new information and helps activate learners' prior knowlege.
2. Analogies
Making analogies of subject to be learned related to something existing in the real world.
3. Elaborations
The process of thinking about material to be learned in a way that connects the material to information or ideas already in the learner's mind, which usually develops from general to specific.
4. Using Questioning Techniques
Inserting questions to promote self-assessment and understanding.
5. Using Conceptual Models
Using diagrams to show the relations between the elements of a process.