Element 11: Helping Students Elaborate on New Content

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DQ2: Helping Students Interact with New Knowledge

Focus Statement: The teacher asks questions that require inferences about the new content but also requires students to provide evidence for their inferences.

Desired Effect: Students draw conclusions that were not explicitly taught within the chunk.

Suggested Technology Strategies

Helping students elaborate on new information, involves the teacher assking questions that require students to make and defend inferences about the content. Strategies associated with this element include:

• • General inferential questions

  • Elaborative interrogation

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