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What helps you learn?
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• remembering in a similar
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• gaining specific facts, ideas,
or vocabulary
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• communicating and
interpreting learning
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• grasping meaning from
material learned
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Comprehension
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What helps you learn?
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• making use of previously
acquired knowledge in
practical or new ways
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Application
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• seeing relationships
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• separating into
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• taking knowledge or
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Analysis
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What helps you learn?
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• designing
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• combining parts to create
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What helps you learn?
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• making judgments or
decisions based on
chosen criteria; standards
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Evaluation
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• realizing that other people can
also take one’s own point of view
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• being able to construct an
argument for different points of
view
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• understanding more than one
point of view
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different points of view at the
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Dialectical Thought
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• thinking about how one
thinks and how one learns
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• analyzing one’s own and
others’ thought processes
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Metacognition
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• being willing to assume a
share of the responsibility
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• taking on and completing
tasks in an appropriate
manner
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Accepting responsibility
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What helps you learn?
Respecting others
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• stating one’s opinion without
hurting others
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• recognizing that others’ beliefs,
viewpoints, religions and ideas
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fairness and equality
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• listening sensitively to others
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• being courteous to others
• sharing materials
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• working cooperatively in a
group
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• taking turns
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What helps you learn?
Resolving conflict
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• being fair
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appropriately
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• reacting reasonably to the
situation
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• compromising
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• listening carefully to others
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What helps you learn?
Group decision-making
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PROACHES
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• working towards and
obtaining consensus
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• asking questions
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• discussing ideas
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• listening to others
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• understanding what
behavior is appropriate in a
given situation and acting
accordingly
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Adopting a variety of
group roles
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• being a leader in some
circumstances, a follower in
others
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What helps you learn?
Listening
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• listening to information
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• listening to others
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• listening to directions
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What helps you learn?
Speaking
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• stating opinions
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• expressing ideas clearly
and logically
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• giving oral reports to small
and large groups
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• speaking clearly
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What helps you learn?
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• comprehending what has
been read
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• reading a variety of sources
for information and
pleasure
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Reading
• making inferences and
drawing conclusions
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What helps you learn?
Writing
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• recording information and
observations
• writing reports
• keeping a journal or record
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• writing summaries
S O CIA
• taking notes and
paraphrasing
AP
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What helps you learn?
Viewing
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• interpreting and analyzing
visuals and multimedia
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PROACHES
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• making informed choices
about personal viewing
experiences
AP
S O CIA
• understanding the ways in
which images and language
interact to convey ideas,
values and beliefs
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What helps you learn?
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• using appropriate technology
for effective presentation and
representation
AP
S O CIA
• communicating information
and ideas through a variety
of visual media
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N
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• Constructing visuals and
multimedia for a range of
purposes and audiences
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Presenting
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What helps you learn?
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• recognizing and creating
signs
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• recognizing the meaning of
visual and kinesthetic
communication
M
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Non-verbal communication
• interpreting and using
symbols
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What helps you learn?
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• exhibiting skills in which
groups of large muscles are
used and the factor of
strength is primary
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Gross motor skills
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What helps you learn?
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• exhibiting skills in which
precision in delicate muscle
systems is required
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Fine motor skills
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What helps you learn?
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• displaying a sensitivity to
the position of objects in
relation to oneself or each
other
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Spatial awareness
SE
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What helps you learn?
THI
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• planning and carrying out
activities effectively
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Organization
SE
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What helps you learn?
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• using time effectively and
appropriately
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Time management
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What helps you learn?
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LE A R NIN
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PROACHES
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S O CIA
• engaging in personal
behavior that avoids
placing oneself or others in
danger or at risk
M
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Safety
SE
RES
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What helps you learn?
THI
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• practicing appropriate
hygiene and self-care
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KILL
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N
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S O CIA
• making informed choices
to achieve a balance in
nutrition, rest, relaxation
and exercise
M
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Healthy lifestyle
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RES
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What helps you learn?
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PROACHES
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S O CIA
• knowing and applying
appropriate rules or
operating procedures of
groups of people
M
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Codes of behavior
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RES
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What helps you learn?
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PROACHES
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S O CIA
• selecting an appropriate
course of action or
behavior based on fact or
opinion
M
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Informed choices
SE
RES
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What helps you learn?
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LE A R NIN
N T S KILL S
PROACHES
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S O CIA
• identifying something one
wants or needs to know
and asking compelling and
relevant questions that can
be researched
M
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Formulating questions
SE
RES
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What helps you learn?
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• using all the senses to
notice relevant details
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Observing
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RES
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What helps you learn?
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• devising ways of finding
out necessary information
AP
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• writing an outline
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• developing a course of
action
M
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Planning
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What helps you learn?
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• gathering information from
a variety of first- and
second-hand sources such
as maps, surveys, direct
observation, books, films,
people, museums and
technology
M
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Collecting data
SE
RES
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What helps you learn?
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• describing and recording
observations by drawing,
note taking, making
charts, tallying, writing
statements
M
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Recording data
SE
RES
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What helps you learn?
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• drawing conclusions from
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