Across the country and throughout our great state, classrooms are transforming in an effort to engage students in meaningful learning. Teachers are Speed Dating in the Classroom . In "English Language Arts & Reading".
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Every three to four minutes, one row rotated so everyone got a new partner.
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I also pushed students to add details — Ok, so you slept. I felt like the activity dragged on a little too long, but it could easily be shortened by cutting down on the questions or the number of partner rotations. Cool idea for coming back from Spring Break!
Now I have a plan for diving in on Monday in the TL. April 1, Maris Hawkins.
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In a never-ending quest to help my pupils learn their answers to the conversation exam, I have trialled speed dating, whereby half the pupils remain at their desk as questioners, and the other half rotate round the room, answering questions for the duration of a minute, before moving on to their next 'date'.
Halfway through the lesson, questioners become answerers, and vice versa. Pupils had previously been filling in a feedback sheet with all interviewees listed, but after a clever suggestion from one of my Upper Sixth on Monday, today pupils carried their own notebook around with them, and each person questioning them filled it in at the end of the round. They are given a tally of how many questions they were asked, as well as a comment and a score out of I find the pupils are excellent at giving feedback, generous in their praise and constructive in their criticism.
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