Sublime

it can be any educator who has demonstrated the ability to design and deliver universally designed educational experiences.

who take ownership and responsibility for their own learning

Consider pull versus push. Novice learners frequently don’t know what they don’t know, but experts frequently have a pretty good idea.

Understanding is not just a precondition to learning something. To a certain degree, learning is understanding.

Understanding a lesson is one thing; its value depends on the ability to recall it later, to put the knowledge gained into practice.

Active engagement takes place in our brains, not our feet. The brain learns efficiently only if it is attentive, focused, and active in generating mental models.

there is no research supporting the notion that children differ radically in their preferred learning modality. What is true is that some teaching strategies work better than others—but when they do, this superiority applies to all of us, not just a subgroup.

In Bruner’s work, we see a more direct application of ideas to practice. He discusses teaching content with teaching method, such that something approaching an integrated theory of education seems to be appearing. With Bruner we see an appreciation of the ‘guts’ of a subject conjoined with a sensitivity about the way children learn. Bruner’s first