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...good design is adaptive...you design for maximum flexibility and adaptability.

~ Ralf St. Clair (Author of Creating Courses for Adults: Design for Learning)

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Context drives design.

~ Ralf St. Clair (Author of Creating Courses for Adults: Design for Learning)

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One aspect of responsive teaching is providing the same content at different levels of complexity.

~ Ralf St. Clair (Author of Creating Courses for Adults: Design for Learning)

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When you are teaching, your personality, your approach, and your values influence the form and outcomes of the process.

~ Ralf St. Clair (Author of Creating Courses for Adults: Design for Learning)

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But it's also important to allow space for the learners to influence the shape of their own learning.

~ Ralf St. Clair (Author of Creating Courses for Adults: Design for Learning)

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Enforcing the same learning on all students, as some have mistakenly advocated on the basis of "standards," slows down the most capable students and leaves behind those already struggling, creates inappropriate limitations on what students can accomplish, and in effect, dumbs down teaching and learning.

~ Richard Beach, Amanda Haertling Thein & Allen Webb (Authors of Teaching to Exceed the English Language Arts Common Core State Standards: Literacy Practices Approach for 6 - 12 Classrooms)

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