Friday, October 24, 2014

Costa - teacher behaviors to enable student thinking

Arthur Costa, "Teacher Behaviors That Enable Student Thinking" [DM, 359-369]

Four major behaviors:

  • Questioning -- challenging intellect, help with processing, help with applying from one situation to the next
    • Ask powerful questions
    • Avoid closed, rhetorical, defensive questions
    • Invite reflection, planning, multiple points of view, multiple options
    • Push toward '3-story' mind
  • Structuring -- individual, small-group, total-group interaction; manage resources; legitimize thinking
  • Responding -- creating a trusting environment helping students maintain/extend/be aware of their thinking
  • Modeling -- displaying desirable intellectual capacities

Interaction types:

  • Recitation -- teacher-centered
  • Dialogue -- student-centered

Be careful with judgmental styles of praise -- "good work". Better to praise the specific accomplishment.

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