The document provides guidance on aligning instructional standards and establishing goals, understandings, and essential questions for teaching skills and concepts. It recommends reviewing standards to determine learning outcomes and big ideas, asking essential questions that promote higher-order thinking and discussion. It also suggests using hands-on activities that demonstrate and allow practice of skills, teaching concepts before details, and employing critical thinking techniques to associate ideas.

1. By: Adrienne Button Stacey Moura Traci Williams