Authentic Instruction

Authentic Instruction is meaningful instruction. It helps learners move beyond memorization by creating learning experiences which demand sustained, disciplined, and critical thought on topics that have relevance to life beyond school. The four standards of authentic instruction are:

Higher Order of Thinking

Instruction involves students in manipulating information and ideas by synthesizing, generalizing, explaining, or arriving at conclusions that produce new meaning and understandings for them.

Deep Knowledge

Instruction addresses central ideas of a topic or discipline with enough thoroughness to explore connections and relationships and to produce relatively complex understandings.

Substantive Conversation

Students engage in extended conversational exchanges with the teacher and/or peers about subject matter in a way that builds an improved and shared understanding of ideas or topics.

Connections to the World Beyond the Classroom

Students make connections between substantive knowledge and either public problems or personal experiences.

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