High Energy
Missing Information
Mild Pressure
Self System
Mild Controversy
100
Involves students moving to corners with signs indentifying answer to questions
What is Vote With Your Feet
100
Requires students to recognize, recall, and execute knowledge
What are retrieval questions?
100
The time teachers pause to allow students time to process and formulate thoughts and questions regarding new information
What is teacher pause time?
100
Students identify what they wish to explore or investigate
What is interest surveys?
100
Students use supporting evidence and assume the affirmative and negative position
What is debating?
200
Students assemble on different sections of the classroom to discuss relevant questions related to key content
What is Corners Activity?
200
Requires students to make and defend inferences about the intentions of the author
What are interpretive questions?
200
The pause between the time a student has completed a response and other students are allowed to respond
What is post-student response wait time?
200
Includes formal inventories, informal discussion, and surveys in which students reflect on issues
What is student learning profile?
200
Researching the opinions of experts who hold contrasting perspectives and points of view
What is expert opinion?
300
Students "Stand and be counted" based on their self-assessment of how well they understand key ideas
What is "Stand and be Counting"?
300
Requires students to form conjectures and hypotheses about what will happen next
What are predictive questions?
300
Uninterrupted silence that creates a sense of anticipation about what will occur next
What is impact pause time?
300
students see themselves in the content that we study
What is ownership?
300
Students are asked to defend the opposite point of view
What is O-P-V?
400
Thumbs-up, palm flat, thumbs-down
What are hand signals?
400
Requires students to take apart information and how parts are related to the whole
What are analytical questions?
400
Time allowed to think during pauses while they are answering or asking questions
What is within-student pause time?
400
Stopping formal instruction and giving students insights about key content
What is making explicit connections between content and student interest?
400
Students explore, discuss, and debate different ideas on the same issue, event, or process
What is varying perspectives?
500
Students repeat key information, especially content that students find difficult
What is choral response?
500
Engages students to use and identify criteria to make judgements
What evaluative questions?
500
The three seconds allowed for students to respond to a posed question
What is post-teacher question wait time?
500
Writing, oral communication, physical expression, and artistic media
What is how students might express themselves
500
Students explore a text, video, or other resource that expresses highly charged or opinionated perspectives on a key issue or topic
What are seminars?
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