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Work to establish a classroom culture in which it is understood that, with every task they perform, students know there is a strong possibility that they will have to share out their results in front of their peers.

Small changes of routine increase the motivation to attend to the task at hand.  

The A-Z Sentence Summary:

Total Participation Techniques frame the context so that all students are responding to higher-order prompts in low-risk settings.

The Chalkboard Splash:

he "Pause, Star, Rank":

we need to be conscious of the amount of work we give the students.

The process of enactive listening is a pathway to the performance of music. The goal of this third level of a listening pedagogy is to continue ear training with a strong musicianship program by allowing the listening act to guide musicians to stylistically appropriate performance.[ 6] Not only can students learn the music of oral cultures aurally, but they can also effectively learn the nutated music of literate cultures by listening. In attempting to perform a musical selection, students gain from opportunities to hear a recording that allows them to concentrate on timbrai qualities, the dynamic How of a piece, its melodic and rhythmic components, and the interplay of its parts. Notation alone, whether from composed or transcribed works, can never fully depict all the musical nuances of a piece, and so listening is a helpful guide to performance.

Enactive listening takes time. It can be frustrating for those who have learned to use and value notation as an important means for music's transmission.

Young musicians can learn songs for solo or unison voices — as well as multipart songs and selections for percussion ensembles, strings groups, and gatherings of wind players — by ear.

Of course, schools and classroom practices need to be current -- what teacher or district leader would say that we should continue to teach the way we did back in the "good ol' days?" Can you show me a successful organization or business that prides itself on keeping things exactly the way they were?

We need to believe the adults delivering education services are capable of being innovative, adaptive and collaborative and welcome being accountable for student outcomes. Then we need to invest in this belief by providing both the professional development and the infrastructure to make this belief a reality for all students and all teachers.

Ultimately, it is about delivering core education in today's world by today's standards of success.

I believe this is the basic approach: Education needs to be more relevant and rigorous for students. Educational institutions need to be more engaging and empowering for teachers. A high school diploma needs to be more directly applicable and valued in the economy. These are attainable goals; all education investments should be measured against these objectives.

Rule #2: Concepts before Facts (95% of the time)

Patterns make concepts useful, patternless concepts tend to have a very limited use, so they aren’t studied that much.

But it needs more time to mature in the back of your head while you do other things. Worse, it utterly fails when put under intense stress or time constraints.

Rule #4: Concept Checklists are Useful

Then create a second-order list under each of the larger bullet points with sub-concepts.

Write out (I suggest on a word document, since it allows multiple levels of bullets) all of the major concepts covered in your course.

Heuristics for Learning Better

A concept checklist is a good way to handle those scary, “I don’t understand anything!” moments that many learners face. It allows you to dissolve the frightening implications of total ignorance into a step-by-step guide that can allow you to slowly conquer any subject.

Tactic #1: The 5-Year Old Method

Tactic #2: Metaphors

I recommend brainstorming for metaphors. Start with open-ended questions like: This idea reminds me of…? This idea is used in real-life situations, such as…? What phenomenon mimics this idea? If I wanted to tell a story about this idea, it would go like…?

Tactic #3: Visceralization

combine smell, feeling and motion into an image, not just a picture.

Tactic #4: Deep Linking

if you know you don’t actually have to deeply learn the material, going deeper into a subject can actually make the original idea easier to understand.

How to Learn Faster and Better