Strategies for Daily Use

When woven into instruction, the first three strategies turn silent students and classrooms into inclusive, dynamic learning hubs. The 5 strategies that follow can help students to construct, share, deepen, and refine knowledge in any lesson.

Discursive Sentence Starters

Constructing knowledge together requires the use of a variety of “thinking moves.” These sentence starters support students to use and develop a repertoire of moves to make meaning, individually and collaboratively.

Discussion Passport

When you’re travelling, you need a valid passport to gain admission to others lands. Another person’s ideas are a bit like another land, and it’s important to travel there respectfully.

Appointment Cards

Appointment cards are a fun and way to ensure that students interact more equitably with peers than they might if left to simply choose their own partner each time.

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4 STEPS to DEVELOP a CONCEPT or ARGUMENT

Question Chain

I can engage with fellow citizens to pose & answer questions which increase our individual & shared knowledge.

3-2-1-Bridge

This routine bookends a lesson, activating prior knowledge and synthesizing new knowledge.

First Word, Last Word

a strategy in which people who think differently deeply connect to one another’s points of view, strengthening mutual understanding and trust among participants.

1-2-4 All

This discursive strategy, developed by Liberating Structures, “engages everyone simultaneously” and equitably in thinking and dialogue.

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