Professional development at KIPP King includes setting up «fishbowl»
classroom configurations, assigning student roles, and other techniques for facilitating successful Socratic discussions.
Teachers in Albemarle County Public Schools have modified their environments to allow for a variety of learning styles and
classroom configurations, helping students be more engaged and ready to learn.
Setting up «fishbowl»
classroom configurations, assigning student roles, and other techniques for facilitating successful Socratic discussions.
The planning guide helps teachers identify the stage in instruction in which they use a formative assessment strategy, the probe or FACT (strategy) they plan to use at that stage, why that strategy is used (purpose), how it will be used (format and
classroom configuration), where it will be used (which lesson and where in the lesson), and how the data will be collected and analyzed.