[Students] often have a "We can figure this out - don't just tell us" attitude. In that way, they can be less patient with "traditional" approaches to teaching.

Readiness is a student’s entry point relative to a particular understanding or skill.

Differentiation is simply a teacher attending to the learning needs of a particular student or small groups of students, rather than teaching a class as though all individuals in it were basically alike.

As a teacher, it is your job to make explicit whatever you though was implicit

Interest refers to student’s affinity, curiosity, or passion for a particular topic or skill.

As educators we need to understand that there is no finish line in our work.

Until a teacher learns to use elements like time, space, materials, groupings, and so forth flexibly, it's incredibly difficult to teach students as they need to be taught.