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| Focusing on Academically Relevant Tasks |
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| A lot of “opportunities to learn,” and chances to learn about and practice whatever it is you are trying to get good at. |
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| Employing Active Teaching |
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| Teachers who engage in active teaching are the instructional leaders of their classrooms; they are fully knowledgeable about the content and purposes of the instruction they present and about the instructional goals they wish to accomplish. |
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| Fostering Active Learning |
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| The learner must do something with the material he is studying if he is to learn much from it. |
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| Involves asking students to do something they already know how to do. |
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| Involves showing or telling students how to do something that they do not yet know how to do. |
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| Providing Sufficient and Timely Feedback |
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| There is no way for a learner to know whether he is on the right track unless he receives some sort of response. |
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| Knowledge and skills that transfer become tools that students can use throughout their lives. |
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