Essential elements of content knowledge and/or learning tasks are emphasized as needed.

Learning tasks:

• are activities in which learners are engaged/involved that broaden their understanding of content, topics, ideas, and/or integration/coordination of skills

• vary from simple drill and practice to more complex tasks such as constructing creative solutions to problems through the generation and discussion of ideas

In a writing lesson, the teacher stresses the basic components of an essay; introduction, body, and conclusion.

Kindergartners in a technology lesson learn how to create a visual display. The teacher emphasizes to the learners the importance of finding and printing interesting, captivating pictures of farm animals. Learners work in groups to complete visual display boards for the classroom.

In a pre-algebra class, the teacher explains the importance of order of operations when solving mathematical expressions or equations. By allowing learners to use the correct and incorrect order of operations, learners clearly see that using the incorrect order yields a wrong answer. To help them remember the order of operations, the teacher provides learners with the following acronym: Please excuse my dear Aunt Sally (parentheses, exponents, multiplication, division, addition, subtraction).

In a technology class, tenth graders learn ways to apply technology in classroom activities. The teacher emphasizes two important uses of technology: Internet and desktop publishing. Learners will then depict the essential elements of both of these technological uses.