Providing students with many opportunities to practice previously learned skills, providing students with appropriate retrieval cues, and teaching students how to create general rules or strategies are all instructional techniques for .

- Promoting cognitive transfer.

Explanation:

As per the given description, the teacher aims to 'promote cognitive transfer' by teaching them to 'practice/apply the previously learned knowledge or skills' across distinct time frames and contexts through 'appropriate retrieval cues and teaching students to create general rules or strategies(instructional techniques)' that would help them to understand the concept better. The cognitive transfer is primarily associated with the potential to practice, apply, or 'transfer the learned knowledge' which ensures their understanding of the concept successfully. Therefore, the teacher is encouraging cognitive transfer.

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