Evidence of Learner Behaviors

• Use academic sentence frames to respond to questions at high levels of learning taxonomies

• During discussion, combine ideas being discussed into larger understandings

Questions to Ask Learners

• How do you share your thinking during class discussions?

Evidence of Learner Behaviors

• Connect learning from a prior learning target to the current learning experience

• Ask questions about how concepts and ideas relate to the real world or their community

Questions to Ask Learners

• In today's learning experience, is there another learning target or prior lesson that you can connect this to? In what way?

• Do you often have questions about a lesson that go beyond the lesson? Can you give me an example?

Evidence of Learner Behaviors

• Identify ways that texts or concepts overlap and build them into a presentation

Questions to Ask Learners

• In today's learning experience, what kind of connections can you make between what you're learning and other ideas or things in your life?

Evidence of Learner Behaviors

• Actively listen to peers or class discussion to consider other ideas

• Use academic sentence frames to honor and respond to a peer's perspective

Questions to Ask Learners

• If another learner or the class have different ideas on the topic, how do you consider what they think?

• How do you respond to their ideas?

Evidence of Learner Behaviors

• Create a presentation or other demonstrations of learning that shows the new learning and how it connects to a real problem in the community or society

Questions to Ask Learners

• What kinds of real world problems do you often connect to your learning?

• Can you give me an example?

• How do you show this learning and connection?

• Why does that matter?