Which one of the following examples most clearly illustrates a cognitive apprenticeship?
A) A middle school physical education teacher puts her students in pairs as they practice their forward and backward rolls. She asks the students in each pair to observe each other and give each other feedback about how to improve.
B) An elementary school teacher gives his students lots of practice doing addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division problems so that they will be able to solve word problems more effectively later in the school year.
C) In a high school chemistry lab, a teacher clearly describes the steps that she expects her students to take as they conduct the day's laboratory experiment. She also lists the things that students should do when they clean up after the experiment.
D) A junior high school English class is reading Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening." At the end of each verse, the teacher describes the visual images and feelings that the poem evokes for him, and he encourages his students to do likewise.

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Cognitive apprenticeship involves learning through guided experiences that include explicit modeling of the cognitive processes by the expert (teacher) along with encouragement for learners to articulate their own thoughts and strategies. Option D, where the teacher models the process of interpreting poetry and encourages students to articulate their own interpretations, aligns with this approach.

Which One of the Following Examples Most Clearly Illustrates a Cognitive