Authentic Lessons for 21st Century Learning
Through discussion and physical movement, students practice persuasive communication and critically examine their own opinions. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
January 29th, 2024
Chat Stations provide educators with a quick way to set up and facilitate small group discussion while integrating movement and active engagement. Students move around the room, encounter new discussion topics, and take note of key points from their talk time. Read more »
Created by: Teresa Lansford
April 14th, 2021
This strategy uses small-group analysis of a text to reinforce productive discussion skills by having students take turns sharing and receiving feedback. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
October 13th, 2023
Fishbowl is a strategy for organizing group discussions. Students are split into an inner circle and an outer circle. The inner circle, or the fishbowl, engages in the discussion while the students in the outer circle take notes. As the discussion winds down, those in the outer circle are provided an... Read more »
Created by: Lindsey Link
July 3rd, 2023
This strategy can be used in a variety of ways to encourage students to think about and list their individual ideas on a topic and to record common ideas that surface during group share-out and discussion. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
October 25th, 2023
This strategy can be used to explore essential questions, concepts, texts, infographics, or videos. It also serves as a framework for classroom grouping and analysis discussions that can build student confidence and expand perspectives. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
February 19th, 2024
Students review information together by asking and answering questions with a partner. This collaboration fosters active engagement and discussion. Read more »
Created by: Jared Whaley
June 23rd, 2023
Responsive circle is a strategy that builds a positive classroom community through discussion. It can be used for academic, conflict, and proactive community-building discussions with teachers and students. Read more »
Created by: Sherry Franklin
April 3rd, 2023
This strategy is a thinking routine that facilitates discussion and helps students engage with text. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
May 3rd, 2022
This strategy promotes careful analysis of an issue or a text through the classical rhetorical processes of discussion, observation, interpretation, and consensus seeking. Students engage in a formal discussion process, which enables them to clarify and examine issues, ideas, and values and clearly... Read more »
Created by: Lindsey Link
June 14th, 2021
Students practice prioritizing one idea over another by evaluating their classmates' responses to a reading or discussion and "spending" up to a dollar on the response(s) that make sense to them. The more they agree with one response over the others, the more a student "spends" in support of that response. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
May 3rd, 2022
This strategy serves to create common classroom procedures—such as what to do when entering the classroom—by using student group discussion to collaboratively develop. Classrooms that use this strategy can develop a positive classroom culture and increase student agency by enabling and encouraging participation... Read more »
Created by: Mariah Warren
May 3rd, 2022