Ensuring Active Thinking and
Participation: Asking Good
Questions and Holding Students
Accountable
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Anticipating
Monitoring
Selecting
Sequencing
Connecting
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Setting goals for instruction
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Selecting appropriate tasks
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IRE pattern – initiates, responds, evaluates
Guide students' attention to previously
unnoticed features of a problem
Loosen up thinking to gain new
perspective.
Articulate thinking so it is understandable
to others.
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Highlight important idea and relationships
Probe students' thinking
Generate discussions among students
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Students work in small groups to find the
formula or rule for finding the area of the
triangles shown on the document camera.
Students were given graph paper, rulers,
scissors, and cardboard triangles to use in
their work.
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Revoicing
Asking students to restate someone else's
reasoning
Asking student to apply their own
reasoning to someone else's reasoning
Prompting students for further
participation
Using wait time