Teaching Learning Strategies

Teaching Learning Strategies

APEI

WHY is it important to teach them?

WHAT are learning Strategies?

how can it help students?

helpful strategies

The five phases of the CALLA

"calla" a useful approach

guidelines for teachers

Andrea Alexandre Gimena Méndez Claudia Vitancurt

Why teach learning strategies?

To accelerate standard academic language learning for all students: Students can learn more effectively and efficiently. They are also particularly important for students seeking to master both academic language and academic content simultaneously.

• Cognitive Academic Language Learning Approach (CALLA) has provided a useful framework for teaching learning strategies.
• In this approach, highly explicit instruction in applying strategies to learning tasks is gradually faded.
• An important feature of the CALLA instructional sequence is that the needs and thoughts of students are central to all instruction.
• The sequence guides students toward increasing levels of independence, thus fostering attitudes of academic self-efficacy.

• Model the strategy by “thinking aloud” as you

perform a task similar to the one students will perform.

• Use the strategy names and refer to them consistently by name.

• Tell students why the strategy is important and how it can help them.

• Remind students to use strategies as they do different types of tasks
• Provide opportunities for students to discuss strategies

What are learning strategies?

They are techniques for understanding,remembering, and using information and skills. It is very important to learn them in order to master both academic language and academic content.

• Preparation: Students identify strategies they are already using and develop their metacognitive awareness of the relationship between their own mental processes and effective learning.

• Presentation: This phase focuses on explaining and modeling the new learning strategy. The teacher describes the characteristics, usefulness, and applications of the strategy. The most

effective way to present the new strategy is for teachers to model their own use of the strategy by “thinking aloud”

• Practice: Students now practice the new learning strategy with an authentic learning task. The practice will frequently take place during collaborative work with classmates.

• Self-Evaluation: Students evaluate their success in using learning strategies, thus developing metacognitive awareness of their own learning processes.

• Expansion: Students make personal decisions about the strategies that they find most effective, apply these strategies to new contexts in other classes, and devise their own individual combinations and interpretations of learning strategies.

• Showing them techniques for “how to learn”
• Developing their independence and confidence

• Increasing their academic motivation
• Developing their awareness of their own thinking and learning processes

• Predict - anticipate content

• Use Visuals - mental images, diagrams, etc

• Make Inferences - by understanding the context
• Ask Questions

• Scan - for specific information

• Take Notes

• Summarize

• Classify
• Plan

• Monitor themselves

• Evaluate - self-assessment

• Use What You Know