- Intellectual role taking is only powerful in the hands of a skilled teacher.
- An understanding of one’s students is paramount. Collecting wisdom around questions such as, “What do students typically struggle with as they try to grapple with explaining sinking and floating?, “How do students come to understand what ‘theory’ means?
- Teachers must believe that all students have something important to contribute, intellectually and socially, to the life of the classroom.
- Teachers must embrace heterogeneity and help all of their students contribute in ways that make them feel comfortable and help the class together realize “the power of ideas”.