Engage

• Generate interest

• Access prior knowledge

• Connect to past knowledge

• Set parameters of the focus

• Frame the idea

• Motivates

• Creates interest

• Taps into what students know or think about the topic

• Raises questions and encourages responses

• Attentive in listening

• Ask questions

• Demonstrates interest in the lesson

• Responds to questions demonstrating their own entry point of understanding

Explore

• Experience key concepts

• Discover new skills

• Probe, inquire and question experiences

• Examine their thinking

• Establish relationships and understanding

• Acts as a facilitator

• Observes and listens to students as they interact

• Asks good inquiry-oriented questions

• Provides time for students to think and to reflect

• Encourages cooperative learning

• Conducts activities, predicts and forms hypotheses or makes generalizations

• Becomes a good listener

• Shares ideas and suspends judgment

• Records observations and/or generalizations

• Discusses tentative alternatives

Explain

• Connect prior knowledge and background to new discoveries

• Communicate new understandings

• Connect informal language to formal language

• Encourages students to explain their observations and findings in their own words

• Provides definitions, new words and explanations

• Listens and builds upon discussion form students

• Accepts all reasonable responses

• Explains, listens, defines and questions

• Uses previous observations and findings

• Provides reasonable responses to questions

• Interacts in a positive, supportive manner

Extend/Elaborate

• Apply new learning to a new or similar situation

• Extend and explain concept being explored

• Communicate new understanding with formal language

• Uses previously learned information as a vehicle to enhance additional learning

• Encourages students to apply or extend the new concepts and skills

• Encourage students to use terms and definitions previously acquired

• Applies new terms and definitions

• Uses previous information to probe, ask questions and make reasonable judgments

• Provides reasonable conclusions and solutions

• Records observations, explanations and solutions

Evaluate

• Assess understanding (Self, peer and teacher evaluation)

• Demonstrate understanding of new concept by observation or open-ended response

• Apply within problem situation

• Show evidence of accomplishment

• Observes student behaviors as they explore and apply new concepts and skills

• Assesses students' knowledge and skills

• Encourages students to assess their own learning

• Asks open-ended questions

• Demonstrates an understanding or knowledge of concepts and skills

• Evaluates his/her own progress

• Answers open-ended questions

• Provides reasonable responses and explanations to events or phenomena