Michael Thayer

Student to Student Discussion Protocol, Worksheets, Teacher Tracker and Rubrics. You can edit this in seconds, add a new purpose question and run another student to student discussion. My class is a discussion-based Global 9 classroom and we use this protocol EVERY day. I can make entire lesson in a matter of minutes - EASIEST activity I've ever prepared for. Simple copy/paste. This protocol comes with specific assigned student roles, descriptions of roles, a rubric for students to self-asse

This one-pager is designed for students to build the necessary skills demanded by the Enduring Issues Essay of the NYS Global Regents exam. Use this with any pack of 5 Documents (from test of self-created) on a regular basis in your classroom to prepare students for the essay. Students will identify key Enduring Issues that the document represents, identify 3 of those documents to match an Enduring Issue they would write about and then be able to describe how the 3 documents demonstrate how the

When you begin teaching Argumentative Writing, you may find that students struggle to support their claim with evidence an analysis. This lesson isolates the skill in order to provide opportunity to support the claim with items that they know. It provides generic evidence to utilize to support personal claims - claims provided to isolate skill further.