Introduction 1
Recommended Design Features 2
Idea＃1:Design instruction so that students engage in routine practice in internalizing and applying the concepts they are learning(and in evaluating their understanding of each) 2
Idea＃2:Teach students how to assess their reading 4
Idea＃3:Teach students how to assess their writing 5
Idea＃4:Teach students how to assess their speaking 7
Idea＃5:Teach students how to assess their listening 9
Idea＃6:Design tests with the improvements of student thinking inmind 10
Idea＃7:Make the course"work-intensive"for the students,but not for you 12
Idea＃8:Use engaged lecture 13
Idea＃l9:Require an intellectual journal(when it is relevant to your class) 14
Orientation(first few days) 15
Idea＃10:Give students a thorough orientation to the course 15
Idea＃11:Develop a syllabus which highlights your expectations for the students 17
Idea＃12:Give students grade profiles 25
Idea＃13:Use a"student understandings"form 29
Idea＃14:Explain to the students,when orienting them to the class,what will happen on a typical class day(and why) 31
Idea＃15:Explain the key concepts of the course explicitly during the first couple of class meetings 32
Idea＃16:Discuss class time as a time in which the students will PRACTICE thinking(within the content)using the fundamental concepts and principles of the field 33
ldea＃17:Make the point that the content is a SYSTEM of interconnected ideas 34
Idea＃18:Think of yourself as a coach 35
Idea＃19:Discuss the textbook as the thinking of the author 37
Daily Emphasis 38
Idea＃20:Encourage students to think—quite explicitly—about theirt hinking 38
ldea＃21:Encourage students to think of content as a form of thinking 39
Idea＃22:Relate content whenever possible to issues,problems,and practical situations in the lives of the students 40
Idea＃23:Target common student disabilities using specific strategies that take them into account 41
Idea＃24:Use tactics that encourage active learning 43
Idea＃25:Routinely ask questions that probe student understanding of the content 44
Idea＃26:Model skilled thinking for your students 46
Idea＃27:Cultivate important intellectuaI traits in instruction 49
Idea＃28:Bring intellectual standards into daily use 50
Idea＃29:Have students role play ideas other than their own 51
Idea＃30:Systematically question students using a Socratic approach 53
Epilogue:Summarize the ideas above in brief to make the whole more intelligible 55