Although the following strategies may be applied to any subject or situation, they represent educational objectives and ways of teaching that correspond to each way of thinking. In the following, the teaching approach is followed by a suggested curriculum focus. A short paragraph then indicates: the general atmosphere to be encouraged; a way to address the learning activity; how to support the activity, and what to emphasize. Intending: Coaching and Guiding Curriculum Focus: Any Problem or Situation >Foster interest, motivation and initiative. Assist the student to think about a specific situation, identify possible goals, and settle on ways to proceed and determine success. Provide options and models to clarify the situation and guide activity as needed. Emphasize personal needs, desires, commitment to goals and the exercise of responsibility. Defining: Identifying and Describing Curriculum Focus: Languages and Information Foster specific linguistic expression. Stimulate vocabulary recognition and fluency of expression through the natural use of language in actual circumstances. Build phrases and sentences to identify, express or describe something as it happens. Emphasize accuracy of expression, meaning, correct usage and fluency. Include library and information skills Exploring: Discovering and Analysing Curriculum Focus: Creative Thinking Encourage questions and answer them as they arise. Stimulate the search for images and ideas that are relevant, useful or similar to other things. Facilitate recognition of parts, features, and functions in complex things. Use sketches, maps, networks, patterns or charts to diagram similarities, connections or dependencies. Emphasize different possibilities and forms of expression, transformation, reinterpretation, and inventiveness. Suggesting: Presenting and Explaining Curriculum Focus: Interactive Communication Foster self-expression, explanation and interpretation. Stimulate the student to make appropriate presentations for specific purposes to specific audiences. Facilitate the student's understanding through clear explanations of what is of concern in a situation. Emphasize the appropriate formulation, presentation and interpretation of messages between people and interactions with objects and images. Innovating: Trial and Error Curriculum Focus: Learning Through Doing Encourage learning through performance. Stimulate the student to take effective and timely actions to anticipate, carry out a process and accomplish some goal in a specific context. Facilitate the student's understanding of tools and materials, their uses and effects, and the manner and sequence of their use. Emphasize that it is ok to do something badly if you try again to improve what you have done until you get it right. Goalgetting: Incidental Learning Curriculum Focus: Science and Math Encourage careful observation, critical thinking and objective judgment in particular situations with specific objectives. Stimulate the student to be objective in recognizing, measuring and evaluating critical factors in realistic circumstances. Facilitate the use of appropriate tools and techniques for testing, measuring and accounting to teach the practical uses of science and mathematics. Emphasize the value of care and accuracy in obtaining good information and learning from experience. Knowing: Reminding and Storytelling Curriculum Focus: History and Culture Encourage reflection on experience as it happens and the retention of significant information from each experience. Stimulate the student to recall, and reapply what they learn from each experience and to integrate it with knowledge gained from other experiences, daily life, family and culture. Facilitate the student's retention of information through cue's, events and stories that recall experiences they have had or might have. Emphasize the narrative integration and sharing of knowledge.