3-1 - The Teacher Toolkit
1 - The Teacher Toolkit is an ideation warm-up exercise for divergent ideation: it helps participants open up more possible ideas before choosing a direction.
How to run it
- Pose a question or topic related to the lesson that has many possible responses. Then have students individually brainstorm five possible answers or things they know about the topic.
- Ask students to work in pairs to come up to share their lists and then decide on thethree best answers or ideas from their two lists.
- Instruct the pair to join with another pair to choose the one response they think is best or most significant.
- After the lesson, have each student record three things he or she learned from the lesson.
- Next, have students record two things that they found interesting and that they’d like to learn more about.
- Then, have students record one question they still have about the material.
- For Primary Grades PK-1, this strategy should be used in whole-group rather than as an independent task, with the teacher charting ideas. Of course, since many children will want to participate, there might be more than 3-2-1 ideas/questions in each section.
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Pose a question or topic related to the lesson that has many possible responses. Then have students individually brainstorm five possible answers or things they know about the topic.
Ask students to work in pairs to come up to share their lists and then decide on thethree best answers or ideas from their two lists.
Instruct the pair to join with another pair to choose the one response they think is best or most significant.
After the lesson, have each student record three things he or she learned from the lesson.
Next, have students record two things that they found interesting and that they’d like to learn more about.
Then, have students record one question they still have about the material.
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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: 3-1 - The Teacher Toolkit. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Pose a question or topic related to the lesson that has many possible responses. Then have students individually brainstorm five possible answers or things they know about the topic.; Ask students to work in pairs to come up to share their lists and then decide on thethree best answers or ideas from their two lists.; Instruct the pair to join with another pair to choose the one response they think is best or most significant.; After the lesson, have each student record three things he or she learned from the lesson.. Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.
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