Strategic Instruction Model Fall Workshop Series:  Concept Comparison Routine, Clarifying Routine, Question Exploration Routine
Description:  The Concept Comparison Routine:  Teachers use the Concept Comparison Routine to help students compare and contrast key concepts. Research with students enrolled in general secondary science and social studies classes showed that students correctly answered substantially more test questions related to information that had been presented through the use of the routine than test questions related to information presented using traditional teaching methods.  The Clarifying Routine:  Teachers use the Clarifying Routine to focus on a topic and then explore related details and the topic’s importance to the critical ideas and concepts. Using this routine, teachers can help students master the meaning of targeted words and phrases. Studies in upper-elementary and middle-school general education classes composed of highly diverse student populations, including students with learning disabilities and those for whom English is a second language, have shown that students benefit from teacher use of the routine. The Question Exploration Routine:  The Question Exploration Routineis a package of instructional methods that teachers can use to help a diverse student population understand a body of content information by carefully answering a “critical question” to arrive at a main idea answer. Research results showed that students who were taught a lesson using the Question Exploration Routine earned an average test score of 70 percent while students who were taught the lesson with traditional methods scored an average of 48 percent.

Instructor:  Kathy Boyle-Gast, Communication Sciences & Special Education, SIM® Professional Developer

Cost: $275

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