With teacher support and coaching the student learns how to decide on a focus, how to develop a plan of action and follow it through, and how to monitor the process. Students take part in developing criteria for evaluation and begin to work with the teacher as a partner. There are many excellent materials available to help teachers with this process. Tiered assignments are designed to meet the needs of a group of learners functioning at a range of levels. Students work on the same content, but are asked different questions and are provided with different activities which are assigned according to ability.
Some teachers involve students in the process of designing units of work.
By teaching the students Bloom's taxonomy and creative thinking stems, students can write and design questions and activities for different levels of thinking. Activities may include working on an individual or small group investigation, watching a video tape, listening to an audio tape or working on a computer activity. Sometimes there are games to reinforce a concept or problems to solve. Learning centres can be used to reinforce and extend the regular program or to identify and extend the interests of students. In the latter case, they may not be directly related to curricular content, but introduce the students to new possibilities for study.