Teachers behave in a interactive manner, mediating the environment for students. Teachers seek the correct answer to validate student learning. Teachers seek the students' point of view in order to understand students' present conceptions for use in subsequent lessons. Assessment of student learning is viewed as separate from teaching and occurs almost entirely through testing. Assessment of student learning is interwoven with teaching and occurs through teacher observations of students at work and through student exhibitions and portfolios.
Students primarily work alone.
Students primarily work in groups. . . Engagement Teacher raises questions, presents stimulating events, makes connections between past and present experiences or in any other motivating or meaningful way draws students' attention to the instructional task at hand. Exploration Teacher provides students with a common base of experience through hands-on activities which help students make sense out of targeted concepts, processes or skills. As students explore, the teacher facilitates and monitors interactions. Explanation A. Students communicate their understandings, their findings, their use of skills and express their attitudes and opinions to their peers and teachers.