calling all teachers

Common Errors of Classroom Practice

• activities equal content
• "hard" teacher questions promote student understanding
• review and reteaching promote student understanding
• "active" teaching promotes high student engagement and understanding
• students learn by asking teachers questions about things they don't understand

source:
Instructional Improvement in (Nominally) High-Performing School Systems
by Richard F. Elmore
Graduate School of Education
Harvard University
Fall 2004

I don't entirely understand this list.

I believe it, but I don't understand it. Not well enough.

The one point I completely get but can't explain well is the last: students learn by asking teachers questions about things they don't understand.

That's the Extra Help doesn't help principle.