Sentences with phrase «whole class conversation»

After students have had some time to respond to these questions, facilitate a whole class conversation where students explain why they think Sue was ostracized by the other students in her class.

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Every school has one; that perfectly coiffed dreamboat, yawning in maths lessons, loitering outside the school gates with a casual cigarette, coming up with fabulously dry excuses for forgetting their homework that have the whole class guffawing — did you ever actually have an extended conversation with that person?

Rather than lecturing or delivering whole - class instruction though, the teacher, who can be armed with data about where students are in their learning, can meet one - on - one with each student and have meaningful conversations about the work she is doing.

In Session 3, you will deepen your understanding of the distinguishing features of a learning group and five strategies for promoting group learning in an educational setting: nurturing children's capacities to learn together; designing engaging tasks that benefit from a group perspective; facilitating conversations that deepen learning; forming groups intentionally; and choreographing individual, small - group, and whole - class learning.

The natural progression from our composition notebooks to small - group shares to whole - class discussion leads to thoughtful conversations.

For example, during a whole class discussion, students should be expected to bounce ideas off of their peers» comments, paraphrase and extend the conversation, and, through inquiry, sharpen and deepen the points being raised — all without the teacher serving as the intermediary.

After four months, students» conversations, class participation, time on - task, and even whole - group discussions showed significant improvement and broader language use.

Instead, we should deliver feedback as questions, as neutral observations of accomplishment («You gave five complete examples»), or as whole - class conversation about the choices various writers make.

In which instructional format — whole - class lessons, small - group lessons, independent small - group work, cooperative learning groups, math workshop, math conferences — do the most productive math conversations in your class occur?

During the first quarter of this past year, my goal for one of my seventh grade classes was to improve our whole - group conversations.

The topic of relative risk of single - asset class investing is a whole different set of conversations.

The time went by quickly and my whole class was engaged in conversation so it was a great experience!!

Research has also begun to examine these questions cross-culturally, and the findings indicate that mothers from Western middle - class cultures are on the whole more elaborative during past event conversations than mothers from non-Western cultures, such as middle - class Maori (Hayne & MacDonald, 2003; MacDonald, Uesiliana, & Hayne, 2000), Korean (Mullen & Yi, 1995), Indian (Leichtman et al., 2003), and Chinese (Wang, 2001) families (see Fivush & Haden, 2003, for a review).