In researching for my Inquiry Project I came across a teaching strategy that I believe is worth sharing. In the article, Strategies For Teaching In Heterogeneous Environments While Building A Classroom Community by Hayley Lyn David & Robert M. Capraro () they discuss a strategy developed by Zemira R. Mevarech & Bracha Kramarski called IMPROVE. This strategy involves the following steps:
1) Introducing new concepts: teacher introduces concept to the whole class.
2) Metacognitive questioning: students are placed in small (2-4 students)heterogeneous groups to engage in metacognitive questioning (they take turns asking 3 kinds of questions: i)comprehension(articulate main ideas in problem, classify problem in appropriate category, and elaborate the new concepts; ii) strategic (questions that refer to appropriate strategies for solving the problem and, iii) connection (questions that often refer to similarities and differences between the posed problem and other problems previously solved.
3) Practicing: students cooperatively work to develop and agree on a working solution.
4) Reviewing and reducing difficulties: through questioning the students review and reduce difficulties; students worked from different perspectives and checked their work to find the simplest solution.
5) Obtaining mastery: as students practice cooperative learning through metacognitive questioning, each student mastered each concept at various rates.
6) Verification: along with teachers’ observations and informal assessment, the students are given a formative test to verify mastery.
7) Enrichment: students who master the concepts move on to enrichment tasks.
David, H. L., & Capraro, R. M. (2001) Strategies for teaching in heterogeneous environments
while building a classroom community. Education, 26, (1), 80-86.
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