To improve students’ reading comprehension, teachers should introduce the seven cognitive strategies of effective readers: activating, inferring, monitoring-clarifying, questioning, searching-selecting, summarizing, and visualizing-organizing.

What is the High 5 Reading Strategy?

1. Activating background knowledge. Research has shown that better comprehension occurs when students are engaged in activities that bridge their old knowledge with the new.
2. Questioning.
3. Analyzing text structure.
4. Visualization.
5. Summarizing.

10 Fix-Up Reading Comprehension Strategies

• Re-read. This is one that most readers want to skip.
• Read out loud. Sometimes it just helps to hear yourself read out loud.
• Use context clues.
• Look up a word you don’t know.
• Ask questions.
• Think about what you’ve already read.
• Make connections.
• Slow down.

The “Super Six” comprehension strategies

• Making Connections.
• Predicting.
• Questioning.
• Monitoring.
• Visualising.
• Summarising.

10 Best Practices of Highly Effective Teachers

• Provide frequent and timely feedback.
• Value parental/familial involvement.
• Sidestep the comfort zone.
• Offer second chances/clean slates.
• Be resourceful.
• Make learning active.
• Be an advocate.
• Pursue lifelong learning.

Orient students to the online course:

• Break learning into smaller chunks. Establish a pattern of activity and due dates.
• Describe expectations for online participation, communication, and netiquette.
• Provide technical support information.

Good Practice Skills: confidentiality, non- judgemental attitude, appropriate boundaries, respect, working inclusively etc.

Here are the skills to learn in 2019 for a career change:

• Artificial Intelligence. Artificial Intelligence, or AI is an important skill to learn in 2019.
• Machine Learning.
• Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality (AR/VR)
• Cyber Security.
• Blockchain Technology.
• Data Science.
• Mobile Application Development.
• Web Development.

Why are Best Practices Important? Best practices are important for processes that you need to work correctly. They are simply the best way to do things and have been worked out through trial and error, and are found to be the most sensible way to proceed.