Traditional teaching focuses on:
A. the presentation of material by an authority, usually the teacher and/or the textbook.
B. facilitating students' efforts to make connections between their prior knowledge and new experiences.
C. using activities that convince students their existing idea does not work so they need to use the new idea built in the lesson.
D. confronts students' existing knowledge by helping them find it does not work in the new situation in which they find themselves.
ANSWER: A
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