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Chapter seven mainly talks about how to approach teaching difficult academic material. Most of the chapter is students describing tactics that can help teachers approach difficult material and what techniques have worked for them in the past. The first thing you must do before teaching difficult content area is determine what the students already know about the topic. If they know very little, you may want them to do some independent research or reading for homework so they are somewhat familiar to the subject and feel comfortable moving on to the more difficult aspects of the content. To make the harder parts of the lesson easier to learn, link it to previous knowledge or breakdown the lesson to several parts. If the students still don’t understand what is being taught, it may be because they’re learning style is not being used, so try approaching the lesson in a different way. I think this part of the chapter was referring to using as many multiple intelligences you can in a lesson so that it is easier for every individual, know matter what learning style. The last part of the chapter describes the importance of knowing if the students understand what has been taught or not. In order to move into more sophisticated material, we must evaluate if our students are really getting an understanding of what is being taught, and they want and expect teachers to do this. Providing them with things simple as feedback or quizzes can determine if we need to spend more time on the material or if we’re ready to move on.