SUPPORTIVE These types of strategies involve allowing students great choice - making and control by letting them work on
independent study projects tied to personal interests ~ eliminating material that they have already mastered ~ and permitting students to show mastery through multiple methods.
BGI was set up as an
independent research institute in 1999 in order to represent Chinese scientists in the Human Genome
Project (www.genome.gov/10001772), and recently signed an agreement with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to collaborate on genetics
studies tied to global health and agricultural breakthroughs envisioned as part of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (www.un.org/millenniumgoals).