Management Strategies

These groupings should ensure that all students work with engaging, high-level tasks, focused squarely on essential content and that they work with a wide variety of peers.

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Learning Contracts

A voluntary, student-completed document that outlines actions the learner promises to take in a course to achieve academic success.

Small Group Instruction

Powerful strategy for addressing students' varied learning needs in the use of small groups for teaching, practice, or discussion.

Compacting

Encouraging teachers to assess students before beginning a unit of student or development of a skill.

Choice Boards

Suited to dealing with readiness and interest differences among students.

Literature & Discussion Circles

Student-centered approach, designed to enhance student understanding of the piece of literature, develop skills in areas of comprehension, text analysis, and oral expression; and to shift leadership of meaningful discussions from teachers to students.

Jigsaw

Three stage collaborative strategy.