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<\/a><\/p>\nThanks to Celeste Kirsh (@teach_tomorrow<\/span><\/a>), I attempted to up the ante beyond “Talking Stick 2.0” (https:\/\/cohort21.com\/viviennekraus\/2015\/11\/21\/talking-stick-2-0\/). No longer was it just about using the plain popsicle sticks to determine the number of one’s contributions to the discussion; now we were going to do it in colour! And this time to track the\u00a0types<\/em> of contributions made. Based on\u00a0 @teach_tomorrow<\/span><\/a>‘s guidelines for her students, I created the following:<\/p>\n This way, students could determine if they were contributing a:<\/p>\n Each student received one of each colour and, during our current events discussions, could only use them each once per presentation. I was hoping that this would limit the students who enjoyed contributing new thoughts, but didn’t push the conversation further. It worked out for the most part, although some of the new thoughts were lengthy ones, which still limited equal participation from all students.<\/p>\n Overall, the students responded positively to this, so I geared them up for more:<\/p>\n “So…how do you think using colour-coded popsicle sticks <\/strong><\/p>\n during a Harkness Table\u00a0<\/strong>would work out?”<\/strong><\/p>\n We practiced a Harkness Table with the same guidelines as above. When it came time for the assessment of learning, though, I tweaked the use of sticks to better reflect the expectations from the rubric so that students could track their performance in this particular assessment.<\/p>\n At the end of the Harkness Table, the students thought that the popsicle sticks were more of a “nice to have” than a “need to have”, but they didn’t mind continuing to use them with the current events discussions.<\/p>\n I personally enjoyed this version of the talking stick. Kagan’s (@KaganOnline) Talking Chip strategy launched me in this direction, and\u00a0\u00a0@teach_tomorrow<\/span><\/a>‘s ideas\u00a0added on immensely.\u00a0The visual feedback I got was immediately telling. I am definitely keeping this one in my repertoire!<\/p>\n Merci mille fois, Celeste!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" …that of a teacher. And that of a French teacher trying to get her students to speak more in class! Thanks to Celeste Kirsh (@teach_tomorrow), I attempted to up the ante beyond “Talking Stick 2.0” (https:\/\/cohort21.com\/viviennekraus\/2015\/11\/21\/talking-stick-2-0\/). No longer was it just about using the plain popsicle sticks to determine the number of one’s contributions to … Continue reading “It’s a colourful life…”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[11,13,15,7,16,14],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-action-plan","category-classroom-reflections","tag-cisdelf","tag-fslchat","tag-core-french","tag-harkness-table","tag-oral-communication","tag-production-orale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/viviennekraus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/viviennekraus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/viviennekraus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/viviennekraus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/viviennekraus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/viviennekraus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/viviennekraus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions\/82"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/viviennekraus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/viviennekraus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/viviennekraus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n\n
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