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Check for understanding, not just for content

Check for understanding, not just for content

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Check for understanding, not just for content

After giving instructions, to make sure students understand your requests, use a check for understanding. The same way you might ask students to weigh in on their comprehension of classroom learning, you can make sure students know what to do before things go astray during a transition or even group work. Okay, so there's several instructions there. Several instructions there. Javier, can you please tell me the first thing you're going to do? >> Close your book >> Close your book. Wonderful. Absolutely. Nick, what's the next thing you're going to do? >> Scoot your chair back. >> Scoot our chairs back, and what's going to happen to the tables, Nick? >> You pull them back I think. >> We're going to do what with the tables? >> Bring them back. >> We're going to, not bring the tables, we're going to bring the chairs back and the tables are going to? Help him out. >> Go in our group position. >> We're going to go into our group position. Where is your chair going to be at the end of this…

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