Smorts

Abstract

&dquo;Teaching strategies.&dquo; The term, infused in and diffused throughout our educational literature, is heading toward a permanent home in the lexicon of professional jargon. Initiated perhaps by Hilda Taba 2 and reinforced by a somewhat technological influence on education, the notion of strategies and tactics now dominates the theories and analyses of instructional prac- tices.But what constitutes a strategy that is uniquely designed for educational purposes ? Is there a limit to the number that can be used in the classroom? Frank Williams identified twenty-one strategies designed to develop creative thinking, based upon Guilford's model of the intellect ;3 Hilda Taba designed a strategy based upon a grouping of Bloom's taxonomic model of knowledge;4 Doug Minnis,5 Norris Saunders,~ and others have designed questioning strategies, also based on Bloom's Taxonomy, to elicit certain cognitive processes. Simulation is a strategy to engage in and examine the social 1.