Help students integrate and synthesize key ideas
Consistently reviewing and summarizing content.
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Model reflection processes at the end of a lesson by sharing how you identified the key points and/or relationships between key points.
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Use synthesizing and organizing ideas thinking routines throughout a lesson.
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Use an exit ticket that requires students to summarize content. Review responses and use that data to formalize small groups in the following lesson.
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Give students a choice-board where the choices provided prompt them to reflect, review, or summarize content as they are learning it throughout a unit of study.
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Effectively organizing and integrating content to make it easier for students to remember and understand.
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Build in frequent structured opportunities for students to reflect on what they are learning and how it connects to previously learned content.
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Use synthesizing and organizing ideas thinking routines throughout a lesson.
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Create a component of your lesson where students are able to reflect on why the choices they make in the classroom connect to the skills they are working on or have learned in another lesson.
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Provide students with a menu of reflection options to choose from at the end of a lesson. that require them to connect ideas throughout a unit of study.
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