Ensuring Active Thinking and Participation: Asking Good Questions and Holding Students Accountable

 Anticipating  Monitoring  Selecting  Sequencing  Connecting

Setting goals for instruction Selecting appropriate tasks

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.

Highlight important idea and relationships Probe students' thinking Generate discussions among students

 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.

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