| What Is It?
Think/Pair/Share
is a strategy designed to provide students with "food
for thought" on a given topic enabling them to formulate individual
ideas and share these ideas with another student. |
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| How Do You Use It?
In the Think/Pair/Share design of cooperative interaction, a teacher
first poses a question or problem. After giving students sufficient
wait time to think through a question and make some personal connections,
the teacher instructs the students to form pairs and share their
thinking with each other. |
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| As students begin to share their ideas, each partner
benefits from the other's perspective. A student's learning is
enhanced by the articulation of an idea. It's one thing to think
about an idea or opinion inside one's own head; it's quite another
thing to explain that thinking to someone else. In the sharing,
partner's retrace their words, search for telling examples, and
clarify the fuzziness in their own thinking. If time allows, one
pair of students may share ideas with another pair of students,
making groups of four. Sufficient time for discussion and for all
students to speak should be allowed. |
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| Think/Pair/Share helps students develop
conceptual understanding of a topic, develop the ability to filter
information and draw conclusions, and develop the ability to consider
other points of view. |
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| What Are The Benefits?
- easy to use in large classes
- gives students time to reflect on course content
- allows students time to rehearse and embellish information before
sharing with a small group or entire class
- fosters long-term retention of course content
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Information gathered from:
Florida
Curriculum Frameworks, © 1996 State of Florida,
Department of State
Multicultural-Foreign Language-ESOL Education Department
Handbook,
School Board of Broward County, Florida
Fogarty, Robin, Designs for Cooperative Interactions,
Skylight Publishing, © 1990
Forte, Imogene and Sandra Schurr, Integrating Instruction
in Math: Strategies, Activities, Projects, Tools, and Techniques, © 1996,
Incentive Publications, Inc., Nashville, TN
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