Introduction..........1Recommended Design FeaturesIdea 1: Design instruction so that students engage in routine practice in internalizing and applyingthe concepts they are learning (and in evaluating their understanding of each).... 2Idea 2: Teach students how to assess their reading..........4Idea 3: Teach students how to assess their writing..........5Idea 4: Teach students how to assess their speaking..........7Idea 5: Teach students how to assess their listening..........9Idea 6: Design tests with the improvements of student thinking in mind..........10Idea 7: Make the course "work-intensive" for the students, but not for you..........12Idea 8: Use engaged lecture..........13Idea 9: Require an intellectual journal (when it is relevant to your class)..........14Orientation (first few days)Idea 10: Give students a thorough orientation to the course..........15Idea 11: Develop a syllabus which highlights your expectations for the students..........17Idea 12: Give students grade profiles..........25Idea 13: Use a "student understandings" form..........29Idea 14: Explain to the students, when orienting them to the class, what will happen on a typicalclass day (and why)..........31Idea 15: Explain the key concepts of the course explicitly during the first couple of classmeetings..........32Idea 16: Discuss class time as a time in which the students will PRACTICE thinking (within thecontent) using the fundamental concepts and principles of the field..........33Idea 17: Make the point that the content is a SYSTEM of interconnected ideas..........34Idea 18: Think of yourself as a coach..........35Idea 19: Discuss the textbook as the thinking of the author..........37Daily EmphasisIdea 20: Encourage students to think—quite explicitly—about their thinking..........38Idea 21: Encourage students to think of content as a form of thinking..........39Idea 22:<