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Step 6: Elicit Performance

  1. ■Let the learner do something with the newly acquired knowledge

  2. ■Practice skills or apply the knowledge to a new situation

  3. ■Have students apply knowledge in group or individual projects, activities, written assignments, labs, and so on

Examples:
Allow for station/center time where students can practice the knowledge learned during the whole-group lesson.  Offer a variety of options, such as computers, textbooks or hands one activities.

Tricia Leigh

Students will work with their Short Term/Working Memory to encode and rehearse the new knowledge.