The Ten Commandments of LEARNING-FOCUSED

Laurian Phillips
Jun 02, 2008

1.   Thou shalt use thy collaborative pairs.
2.   Thou shalt help students summarize thy work and thy thinking, also.
3.   Thou shalt not wait until the end of thy lesson to summarize. Yea, thou shalt distribute thy summarizing throughout thy lesson.
4.   Remember thy review days and allow students to prepare for them wholly.
5.   Thou shalt honor the worthiness of using thy vocabulary in context.
6.   Thou shalt extend thy students' thinking!
7.   Thou shalt help thy students organize thoughts and ideas through the use of graphic organizers.
8.   Thou shalt provide advance organizers to thy students and preview thy Student Learning Maps.
9.   Thou shalt use mnemonics and other non-verbal representations to help thy students learn.
10. Thou shalt remember thy Learning-Focused training days even unto the days of thy retirement.