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Using Think-Pair-Share in the Classroom

Using think-pair-share in the classroom creates a collaborative learning environment where students work together to solve a problem or answer a question about an assigned reading. 

Cooperative Learning: The Jigsaw Method

Jigsaw is a cooperative learning strategy that enables each student of a “home” group to specialize in one aspect of a topic and become the “expert.” 

Classroom Strategy: List-Group-Label

List-group-label is a vocabulary and comprehension strategy that helps develop categorization skills, build background knowledge, activate critical thinking, and grow vocabulary. Watch list-group-label in action.

Poetry in Common Core

Dr. Sylvia Vardell shares why she is glad that poetry was included in the Common Core standards.

Endorphins for the brain

Aronson sees nonfiction as pleasure reading, because it “excites your brain cells, because you’re knowing more, seeing things differently, [and] coming up with a completely new argument.”

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