Spring is bursting out all over. This time of year is filled with excitment and anticipation as the school year winds down. But, it isn't over yet-so let's push pause.
Pausing is an extremely useful technique to use in meetings and coaching sessions.
Pausing creates wait time and gives the brain the opportunity to think.
Pausing is also useful before paraphrasing.
So, as you go through the next two weeks think about the ways you can embed pausing into your work. As educators, we want to reward "quality", not speed. The more time we give ourselves to respond, the richer and deeper the answer becomes.
Let's have fun and use the blog to support one another to further develop the skill of pausing.
In what ways did you use the "pause"? How did it go?
What are you noticing as you pause? What are you noticing about student responses when you model pausing? What things are you finding helpful?
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