1. Define your question: Best Approach with True Student Responses on Thinking Classrooms
I'm curious in the real feelings that students have within a thinking classroom.
2. Analyze your topic into concepts:
a) Visibly Random Groups: Every day, students are divided into random groups to complete assignments on non-permanent, vertical surfaces.
What's Its Significance:
- Social barriers are broken down, and social anxieties decreased in the classroom.
- Students are encouraged to share knowledge and discover various approaches.
- Social barriers are broken down, and social anxieties decreased in the classroom.
- Students are encouraged to share knowledge and discover various approaches.
- All students, including the more reserved or insecure ones, are encouraged to collaborate and participate.
b) Vertical Non-Permanent Surfaces (VNPS): Vertical whiteboards, chalkboards, or any other writable vertical surface are used by students to complete classroom tasks.
What's Its Significance:
- encourages active engagement since it's simple for all students to see, edit, and contribute to work.
- promotes taking chances because errors may be easily fixed
- encourages active engagement since it's simple for all students to see, edit, and contribute to work.
- promotes taking chances because errors may be easily fixed
- depth conversations by making thoughts visible to the teacher and fellow students.
c) Rich, Non-Curricular Tasks (Thinking Tasks): Employ accessible, open-ended tasks that encourage students to collaborate and solve problems without instantly depending on memorized methods.
What's Its Significance:
- enables all students to share their thoughts, regardless of their prior knowledge of mathematics
- puts more emphasis on knowledge and process than on "answer-getting"
- promotes perseverance and interest in problem-solving.
