Experience
The model begins with experience, action. This immediately focuses the attention on the learner rather than the teacher. This requires active cooperation from the learner, coupled with guidance from the teacher to help maintain the learner's curiosity. Teaching becomes a cooperative enterprise.

Share
Sharing is simply asking the group or individuals, What did you do? What happened? What did it feel like to do (whatever)? This step should generate lots of information to lead to the process step.

Process
The questions and discussion now become more focused on what was most important about the experience. Common themes that emerge from the sharing session are explored further. Often the key teaching points related to the subject matter are discussed.

Generalize
In this step the experience is related to a real-world example. This step helps the student to answer the questions, Why should I learn this? What did the experience mean to me personally? To my everyday life? Subject matter and life skill development can be discussed in this step. For example, if you hope that the activity helps students to develop teamwork skills, then questions about teamwork would be appropriate.

Apply
This step helps the student to answer the question, Now that I know this, what do I do next? Can students express what they learned and how they can use what they learned? Can the student actually apply the learning to a new situation?