2.       Understand the learning process

3.       Be actively involved in the learning process

4.       Have learning goals related to their own interests and choices

5.       Receive instruction responsive to their learning styles and strengths

6.       See learning modeled by adults as an exciting and rewarding process

7.       Experience success

8.       Have time to integrate learning

9.       Receive realistic and immediate feedback that enhances self-efficacy

10.   Receive appropriate rewards for performance gains

11.   Experience a supportive, safe, well organized learning environment

2.       Prior to a unit, have students develop a K-W-L chart.

3.       Allow individual students or groups of students to choose topics they would like to study.

4.       Incorporate culturally relevant content.

5.       Allow students to make choices before, during, and after instructional activities.

6.       Teach students how to order films on topics that interest them.

7.       Teach students how to invite guest speakers to discuss a topic of interest. 

8.       Create a unit on biographies.

9.       Create opportunities for structured sharing.

10.   Have students develop special-interest days or weeks.

11.   When involving students in writing, do not always assign a topic.

12.   Use learning logs.

13.   Allow student to develop their own spelling list.

14.   Develop future plans. 

2.       Repeat, clarify, paraphrase.

3.       Use gestures, intonation, and other nonverbal ways of communication.

4.       Use pictures, objects, graphs, maps, and charts.

5.       Use hands-on activities.

6.       Check frequently for understanding.

7.       Differentiate instruction.

8.       Adjust lesson plans to adhere to different learning styles.

9.       Provide assistance or accommodations when necessary. 

1.       Positive independence.

2.       Individual accountability.

3.       Face-to-face interaction.

4.       Teaching collaborative skills.

5.       Processing group skills