“Live” an idea

• Your own rewritten are remembered here.
• Compare each new experience with similar past experiences.
• Find a way to link new information to what you already know.
• Try to gather and compare information from several new sources.  
• Ask yourself if you can see things from other people’s points of view.
• Look for the big picture. What is the most important main idea?  
• Search for new insights from new and past experiences.  
• Find the most important things about each new experience.
• Think about what others have learned from important experiences.  
• Be willing to re-think and change your mind concerning an experience.
• Think about ways you can enlarge your view of the world.
• Ask others about new ways to remember what you have to learn.
• Learn how to remember larger amounts of information.
• Try to remember and describe the details of a specific event.
• Think about a way you can reorganize large amounts of information.
• Select visual images in nature and daily life to create new art forms.
• Select sounds in nature and daily life to create new art forms.

Teachers who are excellent at teaching their course content often take time during their course, or a class, to talk with students about ways to improve the quality of their lives inside and outside of school. When teachers initiate, students generally listen closely to these shared moments.

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