Team Members: Bev Drabik, Sheri Clark, Debbie Benko, Bob Kaufman, Kathy Harlow

Key Concepts

Difficult means of assessment for any student with personality or performance challenges, i.e. Speech, ESL, shy.p.254

High Quality Rubrics and good questions are key. p.255

Call on volunteers and non-volunteers in discussion .p. 256

Sufficient wait time for answers draws out those less likely to answer.p. 257

Use non-recall questions with reasoning verbs like compare, and predict.p.257

Use other strategies such as Think/Pair/Share, asking for elaboration of student response, and paraphrasing.p .257

Important to model the question and response techniques.p.258, 259

Journal writing is effective if specific guided instruction and a careful rubric are involved. p.266

Food for Thought: