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Student's are incapable of being attentive unless you GRAB their attention and hold it. Engagement plus attention equals learning. The article gives 5 strategies; ask questions, make students respond through writing, create mini-lectures to check for understanding, focus on student perspective and create a good rapport with the students.

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Being methodical and systemic about learning.

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Being methodical and systemic about learning.

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Creating your own learning activities.
Anticipating the needs and pitfalls of the learning journey
Building your bank of learning resources.

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Question.
Be open.
Observe.
Seek diverse ideas.
Attitude of exploration and fun.
Be brave.
Experiment/Tinker.
Wonder.

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Determination/Hard Work:
1. Persevering - staying engaged with tricky things
2. Recovering - Bouncing back from mistakes
3. Practicing - Putting in time to master the tricky skill.

TIPS FOR TEACHING DETERMINATION:
-Praise effort
-Don't help too much
-Model
-Real life examples
-Recovering from failure to show growth

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Team Player
Be able to offer and receive feedback
Emulate Ideas
Walk in someone else's shoes
Find your voice

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Critical Thinkers monitor, reflect, refine, and correct their thinking
Critical thinking classrooms:
- are talking classrooms
- look for and remove obstacles to thinking
- have teachers that facilitate more than instruct
- have teachers that require students to solve their own problems

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1. Questioning and Challenging
2. Making Connections
3. Envisioning What Might Be
4. Exploring Ideas and Keeping Options Open
5. Reflecting Critically

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Connecting ideas to past knowledge in order to solve problems
Allows the mind to rest, reflect, and revisit to bring a deeper understanding of what was learned.
Used for strengths and weaknesses in process and skills