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Arizona Daily Star 1985 Special Edition on TCE
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Four Criteria for Understanding
- Understand beyond discrete facts or skills
by focusing on larger concepts.
- Ask yourself: Is it worth an adult learning this?
- Understand the extent in which the topic, idea,
or process resides at the heart of the discipline.
- Ask yourself: What does this have to do with -subject-?
- Understand the extent in which the topic, idea,
or process requires uncoverage (exploration and inquiry).
- Ask yourself: Are these concepts or processes difficult
to grasp and do they tend to lead to misconceptions that
need to
be challenged?
- Understand the extent in which the topic, idea
or process offers potential for engaging students (through contextualization)?
- Ask
yourself: How is this topic, idea, or process reflected
in the students’lives?
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