Top Tip No. 3: With the great power of pausing comes great responsibility.
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Here’s a one-minute video that should make the following advice really clear: warn students before you pause their activity!
Because students occasionally become engrossed in their work, please consider two suggestions before you pause their work:
Offer a warning. “I’m going to pause you in ten seconds” will be felt very differently by students than a sudden pause mid-sentence or mid-robot scaling.
Have a purpose for pausing and get straight to it. You’ve just summoned dozens of eyes out of their work and onto you. Let students know there was a reason for your interruption. Share some interesting work. Offer a helpful explanation. Ask a question to push their thinking.
Students will appreciate all the ways you honor their time and attention!
Dan & the Desmos Classroom Team
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Ellington, CT
Making connections to rough draft vs. final draft seemed like a good connection for the "stronger and clearer each time" portion of Activity 1. Students related well to this and were able to make their descriptions stronger each time. I advised their partners to ask them questions like "how, where, how much?" to help them get clearer.
New York City, NY
When students got stuck they really enjoyed it when I put their response on the screen and helped them figure out what was going on together. Many students needed clarification over the purpose of the line of reflection or the center of rotation before they were able to transform precisely.
