Create "Enduring Understandings" that Make a Difference
| Identify Overarching Concepts that Matter Most By strategically planning lessons teachers create experiences that address issues of: motivation: effective use of class time builds long-term retention; differentiation and cross-curricular connections; and critical thinking. |  Students design websites to connect career ambitons and coursework. |
 Students draft solutions for the problem of flooding during the monsoon season in Arizona | Transfer Lesson to New Situations Moving beyond textbooks and lectures and exploring real-world issues within the community points students in a direction that gives them reasons to think and to investigate the key facets of any enduring understanding. |
| Provide Opportunity to Explore, Explain and Analyze Learning starts when students start thinking. Lessons that work well require two key ingredients: ideas worth thinking about and hooks to lead students to dig in and think. Supporting learning outcomes that are relateable inside and outside of the classroom build the enduring understanding that lasts beyond the lesson and into a lifetime. |  Students get hooked on math and physics by analyzing their competition and thinking how to build a better solution. |
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