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Starting Strong with the “Transformative” & Simple Think-Pair-Share Strategy

August 14, 2015 By Dave Stuart Jr. 6 Comments

In order for my students to progress to successful pop-up debates, and to drastically increase the quantity of speaking they’ll do during their time in my room, I need to start with the simplest possible training ground for verbal communication: two people having a conversation. Toward that end, the first week of school finds me teaching Frank Lyman’s […]

9 Big Ideas within the Speaking and Listening Standards

August 2, 2012 By Dave Stuart Jr. 12 Comments

Every day or so, someone finds this website through searching some variation of “big ideas in the Common Core Speaking and Listening standards.” The problem is, an answer to that question isn’t currently easy to find on Teaching the Core! In order to try providing a better resource for that search, as well as for […]

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