21. Students are more likely to be successful in developing the skills and dispositions of learning when they are given opportunities to construct their own understanding and develop skills through guided practice
22. Integrating all learning modalities (reading, writing, speaking, listening, viewing, and representing) is also helpful for students with different learning needs
26. The learners themselves are engaged in asking questions and finding answers, not simply accumulating facts
27. Any time they are questioning, finding answers, discovering new ideas, and constructing their own meaning they are drawing upon their skills of inquiry
28. Skills are best taught through an approach to which the teacher guides the learners to construct their own understandings and to apply these understandings to any learning experience
31. Learning requires a capacity to learn that reflects a range of dispositions: to be curious, resilient, flexible, imaginative, critical, reflective, and self-evaluative
34. Actively pursues information and ideas both in print and digitally, drawing conclusions and developing new applications
35. Learners experience pressure to be independent in their information searching because they often are using information tools when available
36. Learners must follow ethical and legal guidelines, respect the principles of intellectual freedom and pursue multiple perspectives and a balance of viewpoints before making decisions or drawing conclusions
44. Reflection must become intrinsic to learning so that learning is not defined as an accumulation of information, but rather as the thoughtful processing of information to produce, apply, and create knowledge
46. Students develop their own voices and become empowered to be independent and socially responsibly learners
47. Models of exemplary performance enable students to internalize a solid understanding of the expectations and to compare their performance with the model
48. Student self-assessment may be most effective when students learn to question themselves throughout the learning process