Cueing!!!!

According to Fisher in Frey (2010), The emphasis with cueing is directing attention, and so a discussion of the role of attention in learning is warranted. Attention involves several parts of the brain and is governed by emotion as well as deliberate concentration (p.72). Cueing is an effective guided instruction tool that can be used to help students metacognitivly think about the task at hand. In the video, my students were having an extremely hard time understanding the differences between plant, animal, and microbe cells. I introduced the students to a nonverbal literature cueing strategy that requires students attention and concentration. This strategy was helpful because it identified what students was processing by the hand gestures made and what students were not understanding by the lack of participation. This form of cueing allowed students to process their reading, as well as compare and contrast the different type of cells.