DSSEP Home Page Think Pair Shares: Cooperative Learning Strategies
Steps:

1. Select a question or topic (e.g. Should the electoral college be abolished?).

 

2. Give students time to think, and read, or write about the topic silently and independently.

 
3. Have students discuss the topic and share their thoughts in pairs. Then (optional), open the discussion to the whole class.

Recommended Readings: Cooperative Learning: Theory Research and Practice by Robert E. Slavin. Published by Allyn and Bacon, 1990.

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