I had a few favorite strategies within the "extending student thinking" category. The first one that stuck out to me was the playing devils advocate. Especially with current events or current issues around the globe this strategy requires to students to form their own educated opinions and learn the opinions of others, which I believe is extremely important. Another one of my favorites in this category was the "unpack thinking" strategy. Students need to be able to explain how they got to their answer and discuss their thought processes on different topics.
I hope to be able to implement several strategies into daily lessons, but how can I deal with the time frame I am given. Every day at novice teaching, I see frustration in my cooperating teachers eyes because she can not finish all that she wanted to accomplish. Usually only one teaching strategy can be implemented in a forty minute period after students get organized and ready to learn. I know time is the most frustrating side to teaching, but there has to be a way to combat it.
How do I combat this time strain epidemic utilizing as many strategies as I can?
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