I encourage my students to form mental connections between concepts. I use activities that help students create organizational relationships among concepts. I use activities that help students create integrated relationships between what the they see, hear, or read and what they already know. I provide a real problem for students to solve when they are learning various topics. My students actively manipulate and explore case data.
Students are in the role of an active participant in a realistic task of event.
Collaboration is encouraged among my students. I try to present complex situations in a realistic environment. I present a problem in a narrative format or story with embedded data. My students identify with the problems I present and become actively involved in generating a solution. I present problem for which multiple solutions are possible, depending on student's perspective and data provided.