{"id":2479,"date":"2018-02-27T11:35:46","date_gmt":"2018-02-27T17:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/?p=2479"},"modified":"2018-02-27T11:35:46","modified_gmt":"2018-02-27T17:35:46","slug":"understanding-routines-connect-extend-and-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/understanding-routines-connect-extend-and-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding routines: Connect, extend, and challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yesterday I had my students lead a class discussion. &nbsp;Since I wanted to make sure the discussion was centered around the text they had read, I decided to have them complete an in-class reading strategy first. &nbsp;Using the \u201cVisible Thinking\u201d<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.visiblethinkingpz.org\/VisibleThinking_html_files\/VisibleThinking1.html\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">website<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> from Harvard\u2019s Project Zero, I chose one of the Understanding Routines: Connect, Extend, and Challenge. Each of these three of &nbsp;concepts have questions to answer:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Connect: How are the ideas and information presented in the text connected to what you already knew?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Extend: What new ideas did you get that extended or pushed your thinking in new directions?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Challenge: What is still challenging or confusing for you to get your mind around? &nbsp;What questions, wonderings, or puzzles do you now have?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On a handout that I had made, students took time to answer the questions prior to the discussion. The student-led discussion was the best I have seen from these students. By providing some time for the students to review the text, as well as directing them to think deeper about the material, I prepared them to apply the concepts and ideas from the text to the discussion instead of talking about what they liked. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By having the students re-engage with and review the text, I noticed that they were able to have a deeper discussion. &nbsp;In addition, I was able to collect these pieces of paper as an informal assessment of whether or not they had completed and\/or understood the reading. &nbsp;I could also use this information to see what questions they may still have about the material. &nbsp;&nbsp;I will definitely be trying this strategy again! <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I had my students lead a class discussion. &nbsp;Since I wanted to make sure the discussion was centered around the text [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching-tips"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5DI6r-DZ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2480,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2479\/revisions\/2480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}