Opportunities to Respond

Individual Verbal Responses

Rationale: Providing students opportunities to respond throughout the lesson increases student engagement and content retention. 

Description: When a teacher elicits an individual verbal response, hold all students responsible for the thinking, avoid calling on volunteers and encourage all students to be ready with an answer. Some examples of this are...

Partner First - share with a partner, lock in an answer

Question First - ask a question, provide think time, and call on a student randomly

Whip Around or Pass - when there are multiple answers, have every student think about an answer and offer a pass option if they don't have an answer.