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Cover of Run, Dog, Run Story and photos by Melissa Reese Etheridge Edited by Bruce Larkin When requiring a project or finished product from students, it is imperative that the teacher shows examples of successful student products--some collected from previous years. If the teacher doesn't show successful student products, then the students have no choice but to guess what the teacher had in mind. When I give an assignment of any depth to the students, I know that I'm going to have to frontload the information for them. If I don't provide information and examples on what the finished product will look like, then I'm just asking the students to put together a jigsaw puzzle without a picture. If I'm teaching a lesson on, let's say, writing a good thesis statement, then I will do a "live demonstration" on how I go about the process of creating my thesis statement so that my audience will know what the blog is about. I need to show my...