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Technique 21: Take a Stand
Push students to actively engage in the ideas around them by making judgments about the answers their peers provide.
Teacher
Student
Push students to assess the responses of other students (can be whole class, evaluative, Actively engages in the ideas around them by making judgments about the answers their
verbal or signaled through a gesture).
peers provide.
Don’t ask if they agree, but make students accountable for mentally engaged judgments Are open to having their ideas be assessed by peers as well
rather than empty and obligatory participation (have students defend their judgment and do
this technique for both correct and incorrect answers).
Technique 26: Everybody Writes
Set students up for rigorous engagement by giving them the opportunity to reflect first in writing before discussing.
Teacher
Student
Ask all students to prepare for more ambitious thinking and discussion by reflecting in Is challenged intellectually and is engaged
writing for a short interval. Benefits include selection of effective responses by circulating The quality of the ideas and their writing improves
and reading over shoulders; you know everyone is prepared with something to share; allows
you to involve everyone; processing thoughts refines them; steers students in a direction
you think especially fruitful; and students remember twice as much.