Student+Needs

How does Learning Focus help students?

==Learning focused means using strategies that have been empirically show to have a high impact on student learning. Many of the strategies are used by teachers already. The goal is to use a larger number of these strategies with great frequency. Strategies that have been proven to work include:==

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 * ==Essential Questions==
 * ==Distributed Practice - Rubrics==
 * ==Extended Thinking==
 * ==Cause and Effect==
 * ==Graphic Organizers==
 * ==Error Analysis==
 * ==Collaborative Pairs==
 * ==Inferencing==
 * ==Advance Organizers==
 * ==Rubrics==
 * ==Learning Teams==
 * ==Frayer Model==
 * ==Writing in Content==
 * ==Numbered Heads==
 * ==Scaffolding/Preview==
 * ==Acceleration==
 * ==Differentiated Assignments==
 * ==Concept Maps==
 * ==Reading Comprehension==
 * ==Distributed Summarizing==
 * ==Vocabulary Usage==