Title: Reviving Reteaching - Educational Leadership
Headings: Art and Science of Teaching / Reviving Reteaching
Art and Science of Teaching / Reviving Reteaching
When to Reteach
Introducing New Content
Reviewing Previously Taught Content
Tried and True
KEYWORDS
Requesting Permission

Content: such assessments reveal student misconceptions or errors in understanding, which clarify which content the teacher must reteach. In working with teachers across the United States, we have found that effective teachers intuitively employ the basic principles of reteaching even though they might not use the term to describe what they're doing. For reteaching to be effective, however, teachers must use a different approach from the one they initially used, one that builds on previous activities but that focuses on the omissions or errors in student thinking that resulted from these activities. When to Reteach
Reteaching typically occurs in two situations: when introducing new content in a lesson and when reviewing previously taught content that students need for an upcoming lesson. Introducing New Content
When introducing new content, the teacher should continually monitor students' levels of understanding to determine whether immediate reteaching is necessary. For example, the teacher might periodically ask students to use various hand signals: Thumbs up means they understand the new content, thumbs down means they don't, and thumbs held horizontal means they understand some parts and are confused regarding others. Teachers can also use student response or voting technologies—commonly referred to as clickers —to determine students' perceived understanding. Students rate how well they understand specific content;