| Meaningful, engaged learning | I can do this. | Nope, not ready yet. | 
| 1.  Offer a "hook" that piques student curiosity and let that curiosity lead to more inquiry | 
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| 2. Guide students as they set their own learning goals within your local performance standards. | 
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| 3. Offer authentic tasks and encourage students to develop their own. | 
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| 4. Allow students to choose among tasks. | 
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| 5.  Involve a real audience and useful purpose for tasks. | 
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| 6.  Allow interactive instruction and support co-construction of knowledge. | 
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| 7.  Allow collaboration and multiple perspectives. | 
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| 8.  Encourage flexible heterogeneous grouping. | 
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| 9. Give students the freedom to explore new ideas. | 
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| 10. Allow students to develop products of real use. | 
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| 11. Allow time for long term projects. | 
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| 12. Facilitate student work across content areas when completing tasks or solving problems. | 
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| 13. Accept the role of facilitator, guide and co-learner rather than dispenser of all knowledge. | 
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| 14. Allow students to develop assessment and standards for tasks - the rubrics. | 
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| 15.  Incorporate ongoing assessment as part instruction. | 
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