Strategy

A strategy is any deliberate way you organise your teaching to move a student toward a learning outcome. A strategy can be a technique, a behaviour, a cue, a sequence, a frame, a timing choice, or a teaching stance. What makes it a strategy is not what it is, but the intention behind it — you are using it to influence learning in a particular direction.

Purpose

A strategy exists to shift the student’s response. You use it because you believe it will help the student move toward the learning outcome you’ve chosen for them.

Test of a Strategy

The test is simple:

Does this strategy produce a response that moves us toward the outcome?

If yes, continue.

If not, change strategy. Choose something different that will redirect the student toward the outcome.

Where Strategies Come From

Your learning outcome comes from your understanding of the student — their needs, tendencies, and learning priorities.

Your strategies come from your teaching model — the repertoire of ways you know how to help someone change.