Tying it All Together.
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Entrance Ticket
As an Entrance ticket to Unit 3, please use the discussion tab to answer the following question:
How does reciprocal teaching encompass 21st century skills?
•How do they relate?•
So, we've discussed student centered classrooms, 21st Century skills, and you've had an introduction to what Reciprocal Teaching is. But hat what does it look like? How does it connect 21st Century skills and creating a student centered classroom?
In Unit 2 your exit ticket was to take the 4 C's choose one and talk about what it looks like in the classroom. So lets debrief on this quickly.
Here are what the 4 C's can look like in a classroom:
- Critical Thinking→ Guided Inquiry and Problem Based Learning
- Creativity→ Multi-Perspective Problem solving
- Collaboration→Design Thinking Teams
- Communication→ Accountable talk
Reciprocal teaching is the most ideal way to integrate these 21st Century skills all together and transitioning students into independent learners. It builds a mental toolbox for them to be able to refer back to at later points when they encounter more challenging or difficult tasks that require advanced levels of thinking.
So lets tie them together
Reciprocal Teaching is the idea that students learn through constructing their own meaning with their peers. It reaches students in the sense that working with one another for a common goal directly relates back to collaboration and communication. Students will very quickly see that the more clear they are in speaking to and about their own work with their peers the stronger their own intellectual discussions will become, touching on that accountable talk piece.. Reciprocal Math will offer challenging but attainable tasks allowing students to tape into that Muti-perspective problem solving as they work towards their main goal. This is what will foster both creativity and collaboration. Through the problem based learning, such as Reciprocal teaching, you will notice that this is the such a powerful practice to instill in your classroom.
What does it look like?
This is a suggested way that Reciprocal Math may look like in your classroom.I created this document and hung it up for my students as an anchor chart as well as added it to their resource rings In Unit 4 we will discuss the rolls more in depth and what each can entail as well as some materials may be provided to you that I have created.
As you review this, think about what sticks out to you and what you may do differently.
Next, please view this video below, this is a different take on Reciprocal Math but still focuses on the main concepts. Keep the ideas from above in mind, being what sticks out to you and what you may do differently.
Exit Ticket
For your exit ticket you will be comparing and contrasting what was similar between that chart created and the video shown.
Click here to complete your exit ticket for unit 3.
Moving into Unit 4, you will see how I decided to roll our Reciprocal Math in my classroom, incorporating ideas from lots of research into how I felt it would benefit my students most based on their strengths and struggles. Continue to Unit 4