Looking at how students learn can help teachers plan curriculum and instruction.
DIMENSION 1: ATTITUDES AND PERCEPTIONS
- The classroom environment must be conducive to learning.
- Students need to:
- feel accepted by the teacher and their peers.
- perceive the classroom as a comfortable and orderly place.
DIMENSION 2-A: ACQUIRE AND INTEGRATE DECLARATIVE KNOWLEDGE
- Declarative Knowledge: Facts, concepts, and principles.
DIMENSION 2-B: ACQUIRE AND INTEGRATE PROCEDURAL KNOWLEDGE
- Procedural Knowledge: Skills and processes.
DIMENSION 3: EXTENDING AND REFINING KNOWLEDGE
- Thinking skills and processes:
- Comparing
- Classifying
- Inducing
- Deducing
- Analyzing errors
- Constructing support
- Abstracting
- Analyzing perspectives
DIMENSION 4: MEANINGFUL USE OF KNOWLEDGE
- Meaningful-use tasks:
- Decision making
- Investigation
- Experimental inquiry
- Problem solving
- Invention
DIMENSION 5: HABITS OF MIND
Develop productive habits of mind.
- Self-regulated thinking:
- Become aware of one's own thinking
- Plan
- Utilize resources
- Be sensitive to feedback
- Evaluate own actions
- Critical Thinking:
- Be accurate and seek accuracy
- Be clear and seek clarity
- Be open- minded
- Restrain impulsivity
- Take a position and defend it when warranted
- Be sensitive to others
- Creative Thinking:
- Engage intently in tasks even when answers/solutions are not immediately apparent
- Push the limits of one's knowledge and abilities
- Generate, trust, and maintain one's own standards
- Generate new ways of viewing things
