How to Batch Process During Discussion

Rather than responding to or mediating every student comment during discussion, it can be beneficial to let students talk several times in a row, directly to one another, before you step in to guide or shape.

Of course to make this happen you need some advance work: you must instill strong Habits of Discussion so students carefully listen to each other and know to (and how to) build off one another’s comments. And you need a tight classroom culture so you and your kids can really listen to one another and where it’s safe to take intellectual risks and be wrong.

You can see all of that at work in this short video of Jason Brewer’s History class at Troy Prep

https://teachlikeachampion.com/…/batch-process-starring-jas…/