Fostering Discourse and Questioning through Adaptive Schools
Students are the ultimate beneficiaries of collaborative practice
Effective collaboration is dependent upon purpose and positive relationships
How do we establish purpose?
Three Focusing Questions:
How do we develop positive relationships?
How do we develop positive relationships?
Pausing
Thinking takes time
‘Wait time’
Pausing begins a pattern that is followed by paraphrasing and posing questions.
Paraphrasing
“I am trying to understand you, and therefore I value what you have to say.”
Puts both people on the same page:
Gives speaker an opportunity to clarify what they mean
Creates permission to pose questions.
Examples:
You think….
You’re saying….
You believe….
You’re suggesting….
You’re proposing….
“What I think I hear you saying” signals to many speakers that their thoughts no longer matter and that the paraphraser is now going to insert his or ideas into the conversation.”
Posing questions
Full attention
Approachable voice
Plural forms
Options instead of option
Answers instead of answer
Exploratory language
‘What might be…’
‘Which seems to be…’
‘What could be some possible…’
Non-dichotomous questions
Avoid ‘yes or no’ questions
Positive presuppositions
‘Given your knowledge of,…’
‘Since you have an understanding of,...
What is the answer?
How do we develop positive relationships?
How do we develop positive relationships?