Activate learner processing

How to do it
Elicit learner activities Review prerequisites skills or knowledge
  Learner selects information sources
  Learner selects study methods
  Learner estimates task difficulty and time
  Learner monitors comprehension
  Learner relates questions to objectives
  Learner recalls elaborations
  Learner evaluates meaningfulness of information
Elicit recall strategies Underline relevant material
  Rehearse/repeat/reread
  Mnemonic strategies
  Cloze reading techniques
  Method of loci
  Summaries: hierarchical titles
  Summaries: prose
  Summaries: diagrammatic/symbol
  Summaries: concept maps
Facilitate elaborations Imaging
  Inferring from information
  Generating analogies
  Story lines: narratives
Integrate new knowledge Paraphrase content
  Metaphors
  Generating examples
  Note-taking
Organize information Analysis of key ideas
  Content outline
  Categorize elements
  Pattern note techniques
  Construct concept map
  Construct graphic organizers
 


© Albert L. Ingram, Ph.D. Revised: February 13, 2008