SALTA 5th grade

Structured Classroom Discussion Implementation Checklist

Environment

Critical Actions for Teachers

Student Participation Moves

Learning intentions and success criteria posted and referred to

Set clear learning intentions and success criteria Reference throughout the lesson

Know and understand learning intentions and success criteria by answering the questions: What am I learning? Why am I learning it? How will I know I’m successful? Follow Norms and Expectations Listen to partners with care (4L’s) Prepared for discussion with materials and information Automatically identify partner and participation roles All participate and share ideas confidently using sentence/discussion frames

Teacher Clarity

Norms / Expectations Poster (4 L’s) Safe and promotes risk taking by students Active supervision Content materials easily accessible for students Sentence/Discussion frames posted / provided for student use Graphic organizers / structured notes posted and accessible for students Anchor charts (e.g., word wall, images, instructional poster) posted for students to easily for prompts and cues Room arranged to facilitate conversations amongst students

Set, teach, practice or reinforce norms and expectations Encourages all to participate

PBIS

Assign student roles and responsibilities in partnerships Strategically partner students in advance Has partnership contingency for absent students Preselect share out for exemplar responses System in place to choose students for sharing organizer/structured notes related to purpose and standards Questions planned and prepared around content area standards Prepare purposeful sentence / discussion frames Hold students accountable for academic language Encourages all to participate equitably and accurately Ensures all participate equitably and accurately Intentionally plan graphic

Scaffolding / Grouping

Use sentence/discussion frames Utilizes graphic organizer / structured notes to record and organize ideas Use one or more of the following skills: State an opinion/claim Support Ideas with examples Build on or challenge another's ideas Paraphrase Clarify Elaborate Comparing Ideas

Opportunities to Respond

Synthesize Persuade Draw Conclusions

Model/Practice frames and

responses using academic language verbally and/or in frames

Explicit

Instruction

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