SI Strategy Showcase!
Leaders sharing ideas with Leaders...that is the purpose of the SI Strategy Showcase! Share with other Leaders an example of the wonderful strategies that you are implementing in your SI sessions.
Directions: Using the Showcase Strategy Template, document a specific strategy used during any SI session. Modify the template as needed to provide a proper description of your strategy. Submit your strategy via e-mail to Craig or Elena, and return to this website for posting of ideas!
Information on this page is in a public domain; however, this information is meant specifically for Iowa State University SI Leaders. Credit for original sources is provided when known, and credit back to Iowa State University SI is requested if used by others.
General Strategies
- Using Open-Ended Questions
- Redirecting Questions
- Eight Basic Collaborative Learning Techniques
- Creating Successful Handouts
- Strategies for the 50-minute session
- Basic Principles from How Full is Your Bucket?
Strategies based on Feedback/Evaluation
- Feedback from Students:
- Students' Self Evaluation
Strategies based on Games
- Connect Four
- Jeopardy [Template1] [Template 2]
- Trivia [Who Wants to Be a Millionaire Template]
- Class Feud [Template]
- The Game of Life for Accounting (Game is in the SI Office)
- Flyswatters
- Lifo Fifo (Accounting)
- Developing Good Questions Based on Course Topics
- Chemistry Pictionary (Clues are chemicals/compunds and drawings are the molecular diagrams)
- Crosswords: crosswordpuzzlegames.com; edhelper.com
- Word Search Puzzles: edhelper.com; armoredpenguin.com
- Compound Cocktail
- StudyStack.com (includes: notecards, hangman, word search, crosswords, and other games!)
- Survival of the Smartest
- Pathway Tennis
- Developing Good Questions
Strategies based on Notes
- Using a Matrix
- Biology Matrix
- Chemistry Matrix
- Vocabulary Matrix
- Formula Matrix
- Learning Organic Reactions
- Creating "Cheat" Sheets
- Creating a Formula Guide
- Creating Notecards
- Creating Concept Maps
- Integrating Lecture and Textbook Notes
- Lecture Review
- Creating Review Outlines
- Incomplete Outline
- Oral Reading of Lecture Notes
- Using the Cornell Method of Notetaking
- Notecard Question and Answer Technique (From D. Congos, University of Central Florida)
- Playing the "Game" of Test (From D. Congos, University of Central Florida)
- Using Advance Organizers
- Vocabulary Reviews
- StudyStack.com
Strategies based on Textbooks/Readings
- Marking Textbooks
- Jigsaws
- Creating Chapter Summaries
- Creating Chapter Outlines
- Daisy Chain Reading
- Introducing How to Read a Textbook
- Informal Quiz
Strateiges based on Vocabulary
Strategies based on Problem Solving
- Peer Problem Solving
- Using a Solutions Manual
- Math-Based Sessions
- The Three Equations of Accounting
- How to Effectively Use an Example Problem
- Formula Matrix
- The Calculus Challenge
- Lifo Fifo (Accounting)
- Balancing Chemical Equations
- Using the Step Process in Problem Solving
- Problem Stations
- Time Problem Solving
- Problem Solving Exam Review
Strategies Using Classroom Resources
- Boardwork
- Data Projectors
- Arranging Small Groups
- Success in classrooms with tables of fixed seats
Strategies for Quiz/Exam Reviews
- Predicting and Answering Exam Questions
- Exam Reviews for Large Groups (A)
- Exam Reviews for Large Groups (B)
- Creating Review Outlines
- Creating Study Guides
- The Mid Section Review
- Practice Exams
- The Candy Practice Exam
- Post-Test Analysis
- Informal Quiz
- Group Exam reviews
- Calculator Training
- Visual Review (Using Terrestrial Biomes as an example)
- Problem Solving Exam Review
- Developing Good Questions
Strategies for Memory/Concentration
- LWA - Learning with Acronyms
- Acrostic Method
- Peg Method
- Loci Method
- Compound Cocktail
- The Big Picture
Strategies for Organization
- Creating a Course Timeline
- How to Read/Understand the Syllabus
- Intro to Advanced Organizers
- Informal Quiz
- KWL Charts
- Incomplete Outline
- "Survey and Question" in the SQ3R Reading Method
Strategies for Opening SI Sessions
Strategies for Closing SI Sessions
- Predicting Lecture Topics
- Predicting Quiz/Exam Questions
- Identifying the "Main Ideas" to Close an SI Session
- Closing Summary
- KWL Charts
Strategies for Specific Needs
- Working with Large Groups
- Sessions with Only One Student
- Ideas for the first Session after Spring/Fall break
- Ideas Related to Midterm Reporting
- Using Study Strategies to Encourage SI Participation
Other Ideas
- Using a "Mid-Session" Break
- Relieving Pre-Exam Anxiety
- Creating Successful Handouts
