Include Strong Academic Content

A teacher should create any lesson or unit out of the best academic content available. In many instances this may mean that what the teacher includes in a lesson must go beyond specific skills to a broader mathematical context, with "real-world" and even interdisciplinary uses and applications. Studies have revealed that teachers who have a stronger background and broader experiences more effectively convey concepts to their students and are better able to make connections between those concepts for their students.27

Sutton and Krueger, EDThoughts, p. 84.
Robert Reys et al., Helping Children Learn Mathematics, 7th ed. (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2001), p. 33-34.
Ashish Ranpura, "How We Remember, and Why We Forget," Brain Connection (June 2000). Available only online at http://www.brainconnection.com/topics/?main=fa/memory-formation3.