Hattie's Research Says...

•  Meta-cognition is thinking about thinking; includes methods used to help students understand the way they learn.

• Potential to Accelerate Student Achievement: Potential to considerably accelerate

• Effect Size: .52

3-2-1 Reflection

  Students list:

• •  3 main points or things they learned

  • 3 things that interested them

  • 1 question they still have about the content

         QSSSA

This strategy can be used effectively across content areas and grade levels. QSSSA helps structure classroom conversations and was designed to help students develop academic language.

• Q: Question – Give students a question to discuss.

• S: Stem- Pose them with a sentence stem to answer the question.

• S: Signal – Students think of an answer individually and signal when they are ready.

• S: Share – Students get with a partner to share answers.

• A: Assess – You randomly call on a few students to share their answers and/or walk around and listen in to their conversations.