Opportunities to Respond

Partner Responses

Rationale: When a teacher uses partner responses it benefits both teachers and students. As students are sharing answers, teachers can move around the room, listen to numerous responses and provide feedback. Students communication enhances thinking and they benefit from their partners' ideas, which will often spark new ideas. 

Description: All children are involved as they either say the answer or listen to their partners' responses. Think-pair-share, think and write-pair and write-share, study-tell-help-check, pause procedure, team responses, Kagan strategies, numbered heads together.