The value and/or importance of topics and/or learning activities are emphasized.

• enhances learning and learner involvement

• occurs throughout most lessons

• is done by the teacher and/or by learners at appropriate times throughout the lesson

• stimulates the attention of learners and motivates them to remain engaged in learning tasks

In a second-grade music class, learners are to practice dance movements. Before movements are practiced, the teacher demonstrates the movements and points out the importance of correct foot position to maintaining balance when changing movements.

In a third grade mathematics class, learners are listening to the story The Greedy Triangle by Mary Burns. The teacher emphasizes that, learners should take notes and focus on words such as hexagon, quadrilateral, pentagon etc. The teacher inform learners that this story is very helpful in understanding shapes.

In a tenth-grade Spanish class, the teacher asks learners to discuss why it is important to learn idiomatic expressions. As learners respond, the teacher provides feedback and gives humorous examples of communicating in Spanish with improper idioms in different contexts.

IIn an eleventh-grade mathematics class, learners are shown the relevance of fractions, decimals, absolute value, integers, and percentages to real world applications. After a class review of those areas in number concepts, learners write the longitude and latitude of two countries in three different mathematical ways (fractions, percentages, and decimals).