1. Connect: co (with) + nectere (to bind)
Establish a relationship between your learners and the content connecting it to their lives, not telling them how it CONNECTS, but having something actually happen in the classroom that will bring them to make the connection themselves. The experience must encompass the heart of the content.

2. Attend: ad (to, towards) + tend (to stretch)
Have your students analyze what just happened, have them ATTEND to their own experience and to the perceptions of their fellow students; how it went, what really happened. Note another form of the word, “attention”.

3. Image: imaginen (to form a mental picture)
You need your students to IMAGE, to picture the concept as they understand it, (Einstein seeing light curving) have experienced it, before you take them to the experts.

4. Inform: in (in, into) + form (form, shape. mold)
Now they are ready for the left-mode step of Quadrant Two, receiving and examining the expert knowledge. Now you INFORM them of the content they need to understand.

5. Practice: praktikos (capable of being used)
Stay first with the left mode. Your students must PRACTICE the learning as the experts have found it. It is not yet time for innovation, or adaptation. They need to learn by practicing, they need to become sufficiently skilled before they can innovate. Create work practice that is fun, yet demanding. Facilitate the moving through the activities, the centers you create to help them achieve mastery.

6. Extend: ex (out of) + tend (to stretch)
This is where innovation begins. Students know enough, have enough skills to begin the tinkering, playing with the content, the skills, the materials, the ideas, the wholes and the parts, the details, the data and the big picture, to make something of this learning for themselves, to be interpretive.

7. Refine: re (again) + fin (the end, limit, boundary)
Stay first with the left mode again. The students have proposed an extension of the learning into their lives. They need to evaluate that extension.

8. Perform: per (through) + form (form, shape. mold)
Lastly, have your students perform: Here the content takes a new shape, as it is formed through the learners. Look for originality, relevance, new questions, connections to larger ideas, skills that are immediately useful, values confirmed or questioned anew.