Teaching and Learning Strategies

Developing online materials provide us with the opportunity to effectively engage students with the internet. However, it is imperative that we make use of effective teaching and learning strategies in creating web based activities.

Levels of Thinking

Table of verbs for Bloom's Taxonomy Benjamin Bloom developed a taxonomy on the levels of thinking. This is now commonly used by educators and forms an integral part of the Thinking Curriculum. This table is invaluable in ensuring that questions and activities beyond the levels of knowledge and comprehension are developed.

Oz-Teacher Net - Bloom's Revised Taxonomy popular as part of the Middle Years of Schooling Program

Developing Questions That Matter This site provides Blooms level of thinking plus adverbs plus sentence stems.

Questioning Tool Kit From Now On the Educational Technology Journal

Multiple Intelligences Multiple Intelligences This theory of human intelligence, developed by psychologist Howard Gardner, suggests there are eight ways that people have of perceiving and understanding the world. Examples of famous people and their Intelligence This is Me! a quiz which enables students and teachers to identify their preferred intelligence. Multiple Intelligences Test

de Bono Thinking Tools

Brain Based Learning Whole Brain Teaching and Learning Hemispheric Dominance Online Test World Wide BrainClub - provides online tests to determine your learning style.

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Constructivism

Quality Learning - definition and methodology

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