What are content enhancement routines?
According to Fisher and Schumaker (1995), content enhancement routines are inclusive teaching practices that combine an interactive instructional sequence with a teaching device, and they are designed to involve students during the learning process and to prompt teachers’ explicit use of the teaching device.
What are content enhancement strategies?
Content Enhancement is an instructional method that relies on using powerful teaching devices to organize and present content in an understandable and easy-to-learn manner. Teachers identify the content that they deem to be most critical and teach it using powerful teaching routines that actively engage students.
How will content enhancement routines support me in the classroom?
Some Content Enhancement Routines help teachers think about and organize content, then present it in such a way that students can see the organization. These Content Enhancement Routines help students engage in the critical skills of higher order thinking and reasoning required by state standards.
How do instructional routines contribute to the students learning of content areas?
Instructional [routines] are tasks enacted in classrooms that structure the relationship between the teacher and the students around content in ways that consistently maintain high expectations of student learning while adapting to the contingencies of particular instructional interactions.
What are the components of strategy instruction?
How do I put strategy instruction into practice?
- Identify and prioritize.
- Connect the strategy to a class activity or assignment.
- Explicitly and sequentially model the strategy.
- Help students internalize the strategy through practice.
- Support the strategy.
What is enhancement education?
Enhancement courses mean that teachers have to go back to the university and enrol for units offered under the subject. The course is suitable for graduate teachers who initially had done one teaching subject and are required to have two teaching subjects.
What is the impact of the classroom routines to students learning?
Classroom routines can increase student confidence and comfort levels since learners know what is expected of them in different situations. Set routines are especially helpful when working with young learners and teens that need extra support in regulating their behavior.
What are examples of instructional routines?
Classroom Routines and Procedures Examples
- Entering/Exiting the classroom.
- Turning in assignments & late work.
- Attendance/Absent/Tardy procedures.
- Lunch and/or Recess.
- Bell-work/Do Now/Entry Task.
- Finishing work early.
- Use of classroom library.
- Independent work time – asking for help.