Only one in 10 elementary
classrooms across the country emphasizes the development of cognitive skills; other researchers have advocated for explicit instruction of metacognitive, cognitive, and other strategies to facilitate the process of learning as a way to engage and motivate middle and high school students.
It takes it outside of the specific Pets in the Classroom program, but it still fulfills that same basic goal of ours,» — which he
emphasizes is the important thing — «to introduce pets in
classrooms across the
country.»