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Mediation
A teaching strategy where the teacher intervenes and supports the development of pupils' understanding by MODELLING or by direct instruction to help them achieve something they could not do alone. |
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Metacognition
The process of planning, assessing, and monitoring one's own thinking. Thinking about thinking in order to develop understanding or SELF-REGULATION. |
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Mind-Mapping
A way of representing ideas and information visually where links between ideas are represented by branching lines. See also CONCEPT MAPPING. |
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Modelling
Teaching children in a way that helps them to see the underlying structures, and to understand the embedded or supporting concepts and ideas. |
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Multiple Intelligences
The idea developed by Howard Gardner that IQ does not measure aspects of intelligence sufficiently and that people have strengths in different areas such as visual-spatial or musical as well as more traditionally assessed areas such as linguistic or logico-mathematical. |
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