Think-Pair-Share Strategy

By Haibin Li

What’s Think-Pair-Share

• Think-Pair-Share is a strategy designed to provide students with "food for thought" on a given topics enabling them to formulate individual ideas and share these ideas with another student.

How to Use Think-Pair-Share

• In this strategy, a problem is posed, students have time to think about it individually, and then they work in pairs to solve the problem and share their ideas with the class.

Why Think-Pair-Share

• It promotes classroom participation by encouraging a high degree of pupil response.

• It provides an opportunity for all students to share their thinking with at least one other student.

• It increases their sense of involvement in classroom learning.

Procedure for Think-Pair-Share

• Step One: ThinkHave students reflect on a given question or write a response in their journals.

• Step Two: PairHave students pair up with one other student and share their responses.

• Step Three: ShareWhen the larger group reconvenes, ask pairs to report back on their conversations. Alternatively, you could ask students to share what their partner said.

Strategy Modeling

• Step 1: ThinkWatch a video on Learning Disability (How Difficult Can This Be) and think about it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xx5kr2T7rK8&list=PLF6C1F5FB8916AD3D

Strategy Modeling

• Step 2: PairPlease pair up to discuss the video and the questions. You can discuss any of your opinion or ideas about the video. The following is a list of questions for your reference.What have you learned from the video?Does this video change your perception of

learning disability?Is there anything you would like to change in your

teaching of LD students after viewing this video?

Strategy Modeling

• Step 3: SharePlease share with the class your discussions, opinions, ideas about the video.

Think-Pair-Share Strategy

Questions?