Spotlight on Strategies (SoS)

Discovery Education’s Spotlight on Strategies are creative, research-based instructional strategies, created by teachers for teachers. These simple instructional strategies incorporate digital media in meaningful, effective, and practical ways.

SoS

The Spotlight on Strategies from Discovery Education are the perfect partner for teaching with digital media. Each strategy has a specific focus on developing pupil understanding and critical thinking skills such as inference, prediction, sequencing, summarising, comparing or points of view.

Navigating to SoS

You can access the strategies from the Discovery Education Experience homepage by clicking on the green tile in the Discover, Teach, Grow section.

Media types

Each strategy is designed to work with either audio, image, text or video, or any combination thereof.

Preparation

Each strategy indicates at the top of the page the required preparation time (low is approx. 3 min and high is approx. 5 min) and the media type it supports

Six Word Story 

See-think-wonder