Learning Strategies

Analogical reasoning practice is the deliberate work of noticing that two situations share a deeper structure, even when their surface

Real world application tasks ask learners to use what they have studied in a setting that resembles everyday life or

Contextualized practice tasks are learning activities that place a skill inside a realistic situation, such as a recipe to scale,

Far transfer practice refers to deliberate efforts to help learners use knowledge or skills in situations that look very different

Near transfer strategies are approaches that help people use what they learned in one setting when facing a closely related

Transfer of learning supports are the teaching moves that help students take knowledge from one setting and use it in

Independent practice building is the process of helping students move from working with support to completing tasks on their own.

Scaffolding withdrawal is the gradual reduction of teacher support so that students take on more of the thinking themselves. Teachers

Guided problem solving is a teaching approach in which a teacher walks students through a challenging task while gradually handing

Think aloud strategies are structured ways of speaking your thoughts out loud while you read, solve a problem, or work