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Professional Development to Practice

Step 6: Closure
Provides a way for students to review and
clarify the key points of a lesson.
Allows students to “make sense” of what has
just been taught.
Students organize thinking and learning.
Students apply and generalize key skills.
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Hunter, M. 1994. Enhancing learning.