The competitiveness is supposedly related to spontaneous formation of appreciative relationships, but it can nevertheless be enhanced or moderated by the external conditions and instructional strategies that regulate group dynamics.
Every kind of stimulation from the external environment of any instructional unit in any form is an input to the system.
Supporting elements include strategies and external factors that support both Instructional and non-instructional elements.
Scripts and external representations were used as instructional interventions to support social and cognitive processes, respectively, during collaborative learning.
Retired international educator and instructional designer.
These constraints were the curricular and instructional demands imposed by external learning standards, the physical split of the school, and a diversity in the students not anticipated by the teachers.
Surveys of online instructors from ten community colleges measured attitudes toward learner self-direction, instructional technology, and innovation; external facilitators and constraints; Web 2.0 knowledge and interest; and intended and actual use of Web 2.0.
At RSA, the teachers learned to access their growing understandings of STEM-based, PBL instruction within the disciplinary demands imposed upon them by external, disciplinary learning standards and created various instructional approaches that addressed the perceived needs of their students.
These external constraints pressed against the vision and instructional realities being developed by the teachers.
This also means that 50 to 60percentt of student achievement is related to within-child factors beyond IQ, such as specific abilities, creativity, grit, motivation, emotional and cognitive self-regulation, passion and inspiration, as well as external variables such as community, school, and instructional characteristics.
