66. CHAT STATIONS (Discussion, Feedback)
Description: Based on an article by Jennifer Gonzalez, Chat Stations is a quick teacher-friendly protocol that minimizes prep work but gets students up, moving, and talking.
Application: This protocol “can be used for test reviews, ethical debates, exploring new material, or analyzing literature.” In mathematics, Chat Stations can be used to discuss how to solve problems or to find errors, if any, in reasoning from a completed problem.
Process: Have a topic in mind. Create challenging discussion prompts, as many as the number of groups created and place in different parts of the room. Put students into predetermined numbered groups of up to four, corresponding discussion group number with the number of the prompt. Tell students that at the signal read and respond to the discussion prompt. Warn them that time at each chat station will be brief. Direct the student groups to shift to the next station and repeat the procedure. Monitor the activity, allowing more time if necessary. When all stations have been visited and students are seated, review the activity, emphasizing the most salient points or clarifying misconceptions overheard.
Description: Based on an article by Jennifer Gonzalez, Chat Stations is a quick teacher-friendly protocol that minimizes prep work but gets students up, moving, and talking.
Application: This protocol “can be used for test reviews, ethical debates, exploring new material, or analyzing literature.” In mathematics, Chat Stations can be used to discuss how to solve problems or to find errors, if any, in reasoning from a completed problem.
Process: Have a topic in mind. Create challenging discussion prompts, as many as the number of groups created and place in different parts of the room. Put students into predetermined numbered groups of up to four, corresponding discussion group number with the number of the prompt. Tell students that at the signal read and respond to the discussion prompt. Warn them that time at each chat station will be brief. Direct the student groups to shift to the next station and repeat the procedure. Monitor the activity, allowing more time if necessary. When all stations have been visited and students are seated, review the activity, emphasizing the most salient points or clarifying misconceptions overheard.
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66. Chat Stations
www.cultofpedagogy.com/chat-stations/
66. Chat Stations
www.cultofpedagogy.com/chat-stations/
