Strategies for Reshaping Practice
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Change the layout of the room
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Make tangible changes to the environment
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Change or create displays
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Embody the class ethos and outlook in concrete forms
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Use body language
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Create the appropriate atmosphere
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Give opportunities for practice
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Change the context/framework
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Change examples and illustrations to match your framework
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Put skills in a context of values
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Focus, identify, highlight, be intentional
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Change the emphasis
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Change key words and metaphors
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Change resources, tasks, or activities
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Change your choice of content
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Choose an approach to suit the new emphasis
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Adjust your style
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Change your planning: timing, sequence, and lesson structure
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Check what you give significance to, test, and reward
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Plan time and space for reflection
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Change the student interaction
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Ask big questions / Change your questioning
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Provide contrasts and set up dissonance (clashes)
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Make connections with faith and life
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Make connections with the wider world
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Model a new emphasis
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Add the personal touch