Learning Pathways and Instructional Strategies: A Classification Chart

 

 

Learning Pathways

 

Environmental

 

Active learning: involving people, places, or things

Repetition

 

Learning through practice

Emotion

 

Involving emotions in learning

Patterns

 

Building connections and meaning

*Social

To teach and encourage social skill development

Group Projects

Cooperative Learning

Collaborative Learning

Fieldtrips

Peer Instruction

 Review Games

Role Playing

Jurisprudential Inquiry

(Socratic Method)

Group Investigation

Games

Debates

Dialogue/Discussions

Group Brainstorming

Four Corners

 

*Behavioral

 

To change the learning behavior

 

Simulations

Learning Modules

Direct Instruction

Programmed Instruction

Mastery Learning

Computer Drill

 

eLearning

*Information-Processing 

 

To encourage logical and critical thinking processes

Scientific Inquiry

Inquiry Training

Demonstrations

 

Decision Making

Evaluating

Discussions

 

Thinking Inductively

Attaining Concepts

Memorization

Synectics

Advance Organizers

Force Field Analysis

*Personal 

 

To involve  personal insight and individual learning preferences

 

 

Learning Modalities

Internships

Apprenticeships

Jigsaw

Student Presentations

Discovery Learning

 

 

Nondirective Teaching

Individual Projects

Storytelling

Compacting

Evaluation

 

Constructivism

Individual Brainstorming

Think-Pair-Share

Problem-based learning

Case Studies

Journals

 

 

 

 

* Models of Teaching  by Bruce R. Joyce, Marsha Weil

  

 

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