Group Session Leader Strategies and Skills Demonstrated in Module 2
- Encourage Student Participation
- Positive reinforcement
- Nonverbal positive reinforcement
- Partial positive reinforcement
- Use of names
- Repeat student responses
- Ask appropriate questions
- Open-ended questions
- Encourage student verbalization
- Wait time -- After asking a question
- Wait time - After student responses
- Socratic questioning
- Encourage student questions
- Redirection
- Emphasis on student ideas
- Get students to explain their thinking
- Use of student ideas
- Delayed positive reinforcement
- Provide Structure
- Organize the session
- Emphasize definitions and rules
- Provide good visuals
- Provide analogies and examples
- Mnemonic devices
- Help classify content
- An emphasis on process
- "If-Then" reasoning
- Make list of problem steps
- Summarize Important Points
- Discuss test strategies
- Help Students Become Independent Learners
- Use of text and notes
- Refer to the lecture
- Refer to charts in text and/or notes
- Encourage independent effort
