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Speak, Write, Reflect, Revise describes a 4-step process for competent problem solving. The approach requires the teacher to facilitate the learning, which empowers students to help themselves and each other. In addition to improved test scores, students learn to articulate their ideas and strategies clearly using appropriate vocabulary. Students help each other in a...

Posted by Robyn Silbey on Jun. 7, 2011

Many years ago while working with my then 7th grade son on problem solving, he said to me, “ I would hate to be in your classroom, Mom. You ask me questions when I am wrong AND you ask me questions when I am right. In my math classroom, they only ask me questions when I am wrong.”

As I reflect on my journey in shifting the discourse patterns in my classroom and mastering...

Posted by Nora Ramirez on Mar. 31, 2011

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