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LESSON: Strategy Selection

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Social-Emotional Learning All Ages Strategy

LESSON: Strategy Selection

All students, though some students will likely need more support, typically those with weaker executive functions

Teach It!

  1. Objective: Students will learn how to choose the most appropriate strategies for their personal goals, based on their individual strengths and needs
  2. Teacher Takeaways: Using new strategies can be difficult, breaking old habits and changing behaviors. Teachers should guide students to start with a few manageable strategies and coach them to ensure success.
  3. Instruction/Activities: a)Teacher-led discussion: Deliberate Strategy Selection b)Student Activity: Strategy Selection c) Student Activity: Developing Metacognition d) Student Activity: Strategy Action Plan e) Student Activity: "I Haven't YET..."f) Student Activity: Create a Contingency Plang) Coaching: Homework Wrappers
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Why It Works (the Science Of Learning)!

Undoubtedly execution is essential to successful outcomes. Students will need to learn HOW to achieve the SMART goals they created in the previous chapter. Using evidence-based strategies will ensure they are working in ways that are known to be effective. Creating a plan that can enable students and teachers to monitor progress will help ensure that students are making good progress. Excerpted from the book The Empowered Student available from CAST Professional Publishing, the leaders in UDL.