A List of Good Learning Behaviours

• Checks personal comprehension for instruction and material.  Requests further information if needed.  Tells the teacher what they don't understand
• Seeks reasons for aspects of the work at hand.
• Plans a general strategy before starting.
• Anticipates and predicts possible outcomes.
• Checks teacher's work for errors; offers corrections.
• Offers or seeks links between:
  
  1.   different activities and ideas
  2.   different topics or subjects
  3.   schoolwork and personal life


• Searches for weaknesses in their own understandings; checks the consistency of their explanations across different situations.
• Suggests new activities and alternative procedures.
• Challenges the text or an answer the teacher sanctions as correct.
• Offers ideas, new insights and alternative explanations.
• Justifies opinions.
• Reacts and refers to comments of other students.