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2 | Clarity of the Task | Time Management | Discussion Facilitation | Follow-Up | |||||
3 | Communicate the task so that 100% of students understand what to do and how to do it. | Move through the lesson so that students have at least 30 minutes to engage in the discourse cycle (prep, engage, reflect) | Design and prepare discourse so that students have multiple opportunities to share their thinking. | Provide specific praise/feedback to at least 5 students after discourse. | |||||
4 | Check to ensure that 100% of students understand the expectations | Hold at least 5 minutes for students to debrief the discussion | Hold time to set and monitor class progress towards the class goal. | Communicate with at least 3 families about student discourse progress. | |||||
5 | Make sure students know which resources they can/should reference | Plan and execute one new discourse strategy every month. | Share video of discourse execution with the team for feedback | ||||||
6 | Take time to unpack the focus question/prompt or aim with students (they understand it better if they put it in their own words) | I will not repeat/revoice student responses | Find time to coach at least one student in the habits of discussion | ||||||
7 | Ask "why" to students followed by an agree/disagree question | Incorporate time to share shout outs (teacher for student and student for another student) | |||||||
8 | Push and pause for students to use evidence to clarify their thinking. | ||||||||
9 | Keep the conversation going by leveraging turn and talk, think pair share, everybody types, or a poll | Give space for overarching trends of discourse (glows and grows) - not really goal | |||||||
10 | Guide participants to discuss their differences | ||||||||
11 | Pay attention to what is not being said and steer the conversation to cover all sides of a topic | ||||||||
12 | Use silent coaching (chat, sticky note) to encourage students to participate | ||||||||
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