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CHAPTER 3<br />
PROFESSIONAL REFLECTION AND<br />
DISCUSSION ACTIVITY GUIDE<br />
Discussion Cards<br />
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In a lesson about human rights for high school newcomers, the teacher uses a jigsaw project that addresses<br />
the needs of four different types of students through four different texts. The tasks and requirements for<br />
each group reading a different text are the same. To complete the activity, students will all share collective<br />
findings with new partners and then apply expertise and newly gained knowledge to produce a poster that<br />
explains the characteristics of good speeches.<br />
The teacher provides students with appropriate scientific language to assist students in discussing their<br />
observations of a science simulation.<br />
Overall, the teacher in a class speaks about 30 percent of the time and the students talk to each other<br />
through carefully constructed activities 70 percent of the time.<br />
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