EJ474774 PS521121
Title: Strategy Mastery by At-Risk Students: Not a Simple Matter.Author(s): Deshler, Donald D.; Schumaker, Jean B.
Source: Elementary School Journal, v94 n2 p153-67 Nov 1993
Publication Date: 1993
Notes: Special Issue: Strategies Education.
ISSN: 0013-5984
Language: English
Document Type: Information Analysis (070); Journal articles (080); Reports--Descriptive (141)
Journal Announcement: CIJAPR1994
Reviews research
on learning strategies instruction that has been conducted on students
with learning disabilities. Outlines instructional principles on
how to teach learning strategies to at-risk students, according
to which teachers should teach prerequisite skills before strategy
instruction begins; teach regularly and intensively; emphasize personal
effort; require mastery; emphasize covert processing; and emphasize
generalization. (MDM)
Descriptors: Educational Principles; Educational Research; Elementary
Secondary Education; *High Risk Students; *Learning Disabilities;
*Learning Strategies; Special Education; *Teaching Methods
Identifiers: *Strategy Instruction Approach; Strategy Training
