Interdisciplinary Protocols

Purpose

This protocol offers participants an opportunity to share information with others in a gallery setting. The protocol involves small-group collaboration, while making individuals responsible for the learning and, when hosted, the teaching.

Purpose

This strategy helps students question the text, search for deeper meanings, and make connections between text and their lives. It’s effective for all student levels from language learners to honors and AP students. It can be used with academic texts, with fiction, and with non-verbal material as well.

Purpose

Annotating text promotes student interest in reading and gives learners a focused purpose for writing. It supports readers’ ability to clarify and synthesize ideas, pose relevant questions, and capture analytical thinking about text. Annotation also gives students a clear purpose for actively engaging with text and is driven by goals or learning target(s) of the lesson.

Purpose

Socratic Seminars promote thinking, meaning making, and the ability to debate, use evidence, and build on one another’s thinking. Students will achieve a deeper understanding about the ideas and values in a text.  

Purpose

Discussion Protocol that can be used with any type of learner. Will help with questioning and discussion. 

Purpose

A vocabulary strategy which can be used before, during or after reading text. Given a list of words, students try to identify connections between any two words on the list and explain the rationale. 

Purpose

This protocol allows small groups to engage in an effective, time-efficient comprehension of a longer text. Participants can divide up the text, become an expert in one section, hear oral summaries of the others, and still gain an understanding of the material.

Purpose

The main idea is to have students think and write individually about a question, use a structured pairing strategy to have multiple opportunities to refine and clarify their response through conversation, and then finally revise their original written response. 

Purpose

The idea of the Bounce Card is to take what someone else has said and add on to it, by giving another example, or relating it to another situation. Then the next step is to paraphrase and after that make meaning of it all by asking questions. This tool is helpful in facilitating conversation and help to create flow between partners and groups within the classroom.

Purpose

This school-wide protocol is similar in structure to our Think-Pair-Share protocol, but with a focus on student cultural expertise and meaning making. 

Use the Turn and Talk to quickly have students exchange ideas.