Think pair-share strategy

1. Think-Pair-Share Strategy By Haibin Li

2. What’s Think-Pair-Share Think-Pair-Share is a strategy designed to provide students with "food for thought" on a given topics enabling them to formulate individual ideas and share these ideas with another student.

3. How to Use Think-Pair-Share In this strategy, a problem is posed, students have time to think about it individually, and then they work in pairs to solve the problem and share their ideas with the class.

4. Why Think-Pair-Share It promotes classroom participation by encouraging a high degree of pupil response. It provides an opportunity for all students to share their thinking with at least one other student. It increases their sense of involvement in classroom learning.

5. Procedure for Think-Pair-Share Step One: Think Have students reflect on a given question or write a response in their journals. Step Two: Pair Have students pair up with one other student and share their responses. Step Three: Share When the larger group reconvenes, ask pairs to report back on their conversations. Alternatively, you could ask students to share what their partner said.

6. Strategy Modeling Step 1: Think Watch a video on Learning Disability (How Difficult Can This Be) and think about it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xx5kr2T7rK8&list=PLF6C1F5FB8916AD3D

7. Strategy Modeling Step 2: Pair Please pair up to discuss the video and the questions. You can discuss any of your opinion or ideas about the video. The following is a list of questions for your reference. What have you learned from the video? Does this video change your perception of learning disability? Is there anything you would like to change in your teaching of LD students after viewing this video?

8. Strategy Modeling Step 3: Share Please share with the class your discussions, opinions, ideas about the video.

9. Think-Pair-Share Strategy Questions?