Triangle-Square-Circle - The Teacher Toolkit
Triangle-Square-Circle - The Teacher Toolkit is a circle dialogue exercise for reflection and learning: it helps participants reflect on experience and turn observations into learning.
How to run it
- After a lesson, have students draw a triangle and next to it write down three important points from the presentation or reading they just saw or completed.
- Then, have students draw a square and next to it write down anything that “squares” with their thinking or anything they agree with.
- Finally, have the students draw a circle and next to it write down anything that is still “circling” in their head or questions that they have.
- 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 ideas in each shape.
- \ 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 ideas in each shape.
- Printed from Triangle-Square-Circle This strategy encourages students to reflect on their learning and process information presented in the lesson.
- Triangle After a lesson, have students draw a triangle and next to it write down three important points from the presentation or reading they just saw or completed.
- Square Then, have students draw a square and next to it write down anything that “squares” with their thinking or anything they agree with.
- Circle Finally, have the students draw a circle and next to it write down anything that is still “circling” in their head or questions that they have.
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After a lesson, have students draw a triangle and next to it write down three important points from the presentation or reading they just saw or completed.
Then, have students draw a square and next to it write down anything that “squares” with their thinking or anything they agree with.
Finally, have the students draw a circle and next to it write down anything that is still “circling” in their head or questions that they have.
Printed from Triangle-Square-Circle This strategy encourages students to reflect on their learning and process information presented in the lesson.
Triangle After a lesson, have students draw a triangle and next to it write down three important points from the presentation or reading they just saw or completed.
Square Then, have students draw a square and next to it write down anything that “squares” with their thinking or anything they agree with.
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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Triangle-Square-Circle - The Teacher Toolkit. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: After a lesson, have students draw a triangle and next to it write down three important points from the presentation or reading they just saw or completed.; Then, have students draw a square and next to it write down anything that “squares” with their thinking or anything they agree with.; Finally, have the students draw a circle and next to it write down anything that is still “circling” in their head or questions that they have.; Printed from Triangle-Square-Circle This strategy encourages students to reflect on their learning and process information presented in the lesson.. Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.
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