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An Advance Organizer is a tool that professors can present to students prior to a lecture to help them structure the information they are about to learn.

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Advance Organizers

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When using IRA’s, students complete a written response to a reading assignment that includes three components: 1) Insights, 2) Resources, and 3) Application.

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A Background Knowledge Probe is a short, simple, focused questionnaire that students fill out at the beginning of a course or start of a new unit that helps teachers identify the best starting point for the class as a whole.

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Background Knowledge Probe

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In an Online Resource Scavenger Hunt, students use the Internet to engage in fact-finding and information processing exercises using instructor-specified library and Internet sources.

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Online Resource Scavenger Hunt

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In Invent the Quiz, students write a limited number of test questions related to a recent learning module and then create an answer sheet, or alternately a model answer and scoring sheet, to accompany the test questions.

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For a Class Book, individual students work together to plan and ultimately submit a scholarly essay or research paper. Then all students’ papers are published together.

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Class Book

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Teaching Technique 47 What? So What? Now What? Journals THE K. PATRICIA CROSS ACADEMY

In What? So What? Now What? Journals, students reflect on their recent course-related activities as they respond to each prompt in a journal entry.

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Teaching Technique 49 Briefing Paper THE K.PATRICIA CROSS ACADEMY

In a Briefing Paper, students research a current problem of their choice, summarize the main issues, and present solutions to a specific audience.

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