Lesson+3+Encouraging+Interaction

Starting Off Strong Lesson 3: Encouraging Interaction

Encourage students to listen and respond to each other during the discussion. When you ask students follow-up questions, you model careful listening and thoughtful response. You can also use targeted follow-up questions to help students respond to their classmates' ideas.

Tip: Ask a student to look directly at another student when responding to his or her idea or asking a question.

Follow-up questions to ask a student to agree or disagree with another student : Follow-up questions to foster listening and responding to ideas: Follow-up questions to prompt quieter students to respond : WATCH: In the following examples, note how the teacher helps students enter the discussion and respond to others' ideas.
 * Do you agree or disagree with [student's name]?
 * Have you heard an answer you agree with?
 * What do you think of her idea?
 * Can you summarize what he just said?
 * Does anyone see this another way?
 * We haven't heard from you. What do you think?