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- Taking
Account of Student Ideas
- Attending to prerequisite knowledge and skills
- Alerting teacher to commonly held student ideas
- Assisting teacher in identifying own students' ideas
- Addressing commonly held ideas
Does the material alert teachers to commonly held student ideas (both troublesome and helpful) such as those described in Benchmarks Chapter 15: The Research Base?
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