510 likes | 517 Views
Discover effective strategies to ensure equitable response opportunities in the classroom, including the use of wait time, clarity, individual help, and probing techniques. Learn how to create an inclusive and engaging learning environment for all students.
E N D
Numbered Heads Wait Time Clarity Individual Help Probing and Delving 100 100 100 100 100 200 200 200 200 200 300 300 300 300 300 400 400 400 400 400 500 500 500 500 500
One way to ensure more equitable response opportunities is to do this.
This avoids long, drawn out whole group reporting which can become boring and tedious.
What is the amount of time most teachers give for student responses?
Inventor of the concept of "wait-time" as an instructional variable.
It’s characterized by a 3 or more second period of uninterrupted silence that teachers deliberately take to consider what just took place.
It’s the optimum period of silence that should follow teacher questions and students' completed responses.
The number of volunteered, appropriate answers by larger numbers of students greatly increases.
Providing clarity means the learning is this to ALL students.
This happens when the teacher tries to determine if students are confused.
These provide students with an overview of what activities they will be doing.
Establishing a safe environment that encourages risk taking and questioning are critical to this.
Some students may be too embarrassed or confused to pursue the teacher’s attention and may miss out on this.
What are opportunities for gaining understanding through questioning?
Teachers tend to most often direct their attention to these students.
By getting to know their students on a personal basis,teachers can create these.
What are classrooms that encourage students to ask questions?
Teachers can make it safe for everyone to ask questions by validating this.
Research suggests that these students are more apt to be the recipients of teacher probes.
Seeing their teachers make a special effort to help them can enhance this.
When they do not respond, teachers are more likely to move on to another student than to offer assistance to answer.
Probing is especially important for these students who may have begun to doubt their own capabilities and withhold effort.