Stand-Share-Sit

Description

What is it?
This is a collaborative structure that ensures 100% participation from learners and that all voices are heard.

Why use it?
Collaborative structures such as Stand-Share-Sit are great for enhancing literacy skills by speaking and listening and writing too if incorporated as think time before sharing! It also is a great classroom management structure as you can clearly see when all groups have shared as the teacher in the room because all learners will be seated.

Checklist:

  1. Pose the prompt

  2. Give students time to think or write down their thinking to the prompt.

  3. Ask all students to stand at their tables and identify who at the table will go first (seat number, closest to the door, etc.)

  4. Starting with that person, each learner will share. Once they have shared, they will sit down.

  5. When all learners are seated, you know it is time to move on.

Quick Tips

  • Utilize this routinely as a quick way to hear your learners' thinking. This can be used as a formative check-in as you walk around the room and listen in.

Resources

Did you know?

  • Speaking, writing, and listening are all important components of learning across all content areas. By encouraging students to do all three within the same activity, the rigor of the activity increases through this collaboration.

  • Many Collaborative Structures align with the "C" (collaboration) in AVID WICOR strategies.