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Teacher and blogger Amy Lenord writes, “my dear friend and colleague, Jane Shea, has been teaching me / us about "the heavy lifting" in the learning environment and who should be doing it. Heavy Lifting is the participation, thinking and work that needs to be done for learning to occur. Jane is a master at keeping this in mind and designing learning experiences in which her learners are the ones doing the heavy lifting no matter whether they are high school students or teachers under her training. As you can imagine, I am taking lots of notes from Madame Shea! So, this post is all about what I am learning about how to keep the heavy lifting in the hands of the learner.”

Read on to learn how to get your students to take on more responsibility for their own learning: http://www.amylenord.net/blog/the-heavy-lifting