Effective Teaching Strategies for Communication, Critical Thinking, and Cooperative Learning

Effective Teaching Strategies for Communication, Critical Thinking, and Cooperative Learning

Strategy to Use in the Classroom

            Teaching strategies are vital in enhancing the learning experience. To achieve effective learning, the teaching strategies should take the learner’s grade level into account. As a pre-k teacher, the ideal learning strategy of choice is cooperative learning. Since Pre-K students are still in the early stages of learning, they need a teaching method that will help them acquire basic skills. The learning strategy is student-guided as it involves learners working together to solve problems through teamwork. Cooperative learning enables learners to develop social and academic skills (Richardson et al., 2012). Cooperative learning presents an opportunity for students to work in groups where they learn to work together and embrace individual accountability. Working together in groups teaches learners the importance of social diversity and inculcates critical lessons such as respect and friendship. On the other hand, embracing individual accountability ensures every learner participates in the group work, which instills problem-solving skills.

Strategy to Avoid in the Classroom

            There are various teaching strategies that do not guarantee effective learning for pre-k learners. The strategy to avoid when teaching pre-k learners is critical literacy. Critical literacy requires learners to possess analytical skills (Law, 2020). At this stage, the learners have not developed cognitive skills that enable them to read and discern information from texts. Notably, critical literacy is pegged on “reading between and beyond the lines” (Richardson et al., 2012, p. 115). Critical literacy is quite difficult for learners in pre-k as they lack the basic reading and analytical skills to understand the information contained in the reading texts. Further, the teacher should focus on enabling the learners to improve their critical thinking skills, enhancing their reading and cognitive abilities. Ultimately, critical literacy teaching is best suited for learners who have developed reading and writing skills or can analyze texts to understand and retain information from texts.

References

Law, S. Y. (2020). Critical literacy in early childhood education: Questions that prompt critical conversations. He Kupu, 6(3).

Richardson, J. S., Morgan, R. F., & Fleener, C. E. (2012). Reading to learn in the content areas (8th ed.).

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Discussion 6
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The second half of chapter 5 describes 16 strategies to teach communication, critical thinking, critical literacy, and cooperative learning.

Discuss one strategy that you believe you will use in your classroom. Is it a teacher-generated and guided strategy or a student-guided strategy?

Effective Teaching Strategies for Communication, Critical Thinking, and Cooperative Learning

Discuss one of the strategies that you do not think you will use in your classroom and explain why. (Is it too difficult for your grade level? Does not work in your content area?, etc.)