Identifying Critical Content: Classroom Techniques to Help Students Know What is Important. Deana Senn

Identifying Critical Content: Classroom Techniques to Help Students Know What is Important - Deana Senn


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accuracy of the critical content, and then plan for how you will cue its importance to your students. Here are three ways you can verbally cue critical content.

      Directly State the Important Information

      Be direct, succinct, and assertive in stating the information that is important. If you feel overwhelmed by the amount of information you think should be included in your lesson, imagine how some of your students will feel. Take a moment to identify the central idea and a few supporting details, and work with that structure to determine how you will state which information is important.

      Raise or Lower Your Voice to Indicate Critical Content

      Students take cues from your intonation. Leverage that to signal to students what is important about the information you are imparting. Raise or lower your voice for a few sentences to help students focus on critical content. This may take practice; don’t hesitate to record yourself as part of learning to implement this technique.

      Pause at Key Points During the Presentation

      The simple act of pausing at key points during a presentation of new content gives students time to think about information and signal what they find to be important. This enhances their ability to identify the critical content in a lesson.

      Common Mistakes

      Learning from mistakes while trying to teach is often painful. Knowing ahead of time where problems might arise will increase your likelihood of success in implementing this technique. Watch out for these common mistakes when you use verbal cueing:

      • The teacher has a difficult time isolating the critical content, which results in making general statements instead of cueing critical content.

      • The teacher uses a verbal cue too frequently, causing students to feel confused and overwhelmed by the sheer volume of important information.

      • The teacher might pause for emphasis too frequently or sustain the pauses for too long a time, leaving students unable to determine the critical content.

      • The teacher inconsistently changes intonation and seems to signal that information is important when it isn’t.

      Examples of Verbal Cueing in the Classroom

      Following are two examples (one elementary and one secondary) and their corresponding nonexamples of verbal cueing. As you read, think about experiences you have had in your classroom. Consider the common mistakes and note how the example teachers cleverly avoid them and the nonexample teachers miss the mark by making one of these common mistakes.

       Elementary Example of Verbal Cueing

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