| Meaningful, engaged learning |
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| 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 of instruction. |
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