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| The Gradual Release of Responsibility Model |
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| Is the entire instructional cycle during which students learn new skills and knowledge and gradually assume increased responsibility for this learning. |
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| Is an approach to teaching strategies that employs direct instruction, cognitive modeling, and a gradual release of responsibility. |
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| Teachers use explicit instructional talk to reveal their thought processes as they perform the tasks that students will be asked to perform. |
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| Is “a process that enables a child or novice to solve a problem, carry out a task, or achieve a goal which would be beyond his unassisted efforts.” |
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| The instructional use of small groups so that students work together to maximize their own and each other’s learning. |
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| The Zone of Proximal Development |
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| The social nature of learning and the fact that learning is very much a social phenomenon; in fact, we acquire much of what we learn in our social interchanges with others. |
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| The idea is that some types of learning require more cognitive processing than others. |
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