Explicit Lessons
Making the learning visible
Students need to know the WHAT of each lesson
What are they going to learn?
What do they have to do?
They need to know HOW each lesson is going to progress?
HOW are they learning the material?
HOW do they do the task?
Written
essays, tests, quizzes
Visual
drawings, maps, mind maps or thinking tools that are visual
Kinaesthetic
through movement or manipulation of objects
Scaffolding
Students need support to achieve more difficult tasks. They can not always progress without scaffolding.
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