You know that repeating the same words and the same instructions-or simply announcing the answers to questions-doesn't help students learn. How do you get past the predictable and really teach your kids how to learn?
Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey say that helping students develop immediate and lifelong learning skills is best achieved through guided instruction, which they define as ""saying or doing the just-right thing to get the learner to do cognitive work""-in other words, gradually and successfully transferring knowledge and the responsibility for learning to students through scaffolds for learning. In this helpful and informative book, they explain how guided instruction fits your classroom and works for your students.
Their four-part system for implementation consists of these elements:
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