This practice guide will help teachers provide opportunities for all students to extend their knowledge and demonstrate mastery of learning objectives at various stages in the learning process.

All students need opportunities to successfully extend and demonstrate their learning beyond what they’ve been explicitly taught. By applying their learning through a variety of tasks, students can deepen their understanding and expertise across key learning areas of the curriculum.

This practice guide will help you understand how to: 

  • provide opportunities for all students to extend their knowledge and demonstrate mastery of learning objectives at various stages in the learning process 
  • guide and monitor students during independent practice using scaffolds and constructive, explanatory feedback as they extend and apply their learning 
  • provide appropriately challenging tasks that require students to retrieve and apply knowledge in more complex and integrated ways.

Keywords: student learning, science of learning, teaching practices, how students learn