Offering Choices
Promotes self determination
Builds on students interests
Students should be given feedback about how their choices affected their learning
Content
Framing content as ideas to promote active discussion and student engagement
Selecting relevant content worth teaching
Connect content to real world application
Use of well organized and captivating texts
Use relevant texts that are full of imagery, suspense and are engaging to students
Use texts that familiar to the students
Give students background information
Teacher Moves
Promote active listening
Highlight inportant themes and information prior to students working in groups or by themselves
Teachers should show enthusiasm for the content and subject area that they are teaching
Give real world examples and update students when there are changes or new information