Chunk, Check and Chew Strategy

I found this strategy very effective to teach Trigonometry

(1)I begin Trigonometry unit of information with a preview activity and follow that with an initial presentation of a chunk of critical information. This part of the lesson takes about ten to twelve minutes.

(2) After presenting a “chunk,” giving students a task to do with a partner or group to actively process the new information. The techniques in this guide will give you many ways to engage your students in this kind of cognitive processing.

 (3) Following the processing, I gave another chunk of new information. This chunk was a form of brief ppt/video to the critical information with a partner. Students have specific kinds of processing in which they will engage once each information-input segment has occurred.

(4)  I  repeated the above cycle until all of the chunks of critical information for a lesson or unit have been introduced and processed.

(5) I instructed students to review the critical information chunks from the day and think about whether anything they learned in a previous lesson connects with their new learning. Then ask them to engage in some kind of summarizing activity to connect the various information chunks.

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