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Deepens a student's understanding of a concept or skill
Allows all to participate, if set up properly
Students tend to share their own perspective or thoughts with other peers

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Students are taking ownership of their learning and preparing students for college and career. When students are in school they will learn discussion is connected to their learning.

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Students have the opportunity to listen, process, and build upon the ideas of others.

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Allows students to make sense of the content using language they are comfortable with and allows time for students to think and challenge each other.

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Every student in the classroom is more likely to actively engage with the content. They will make meaning of the concepts being studied and will actually use the target vocabulary and language in the lesson.

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Students begin to own their learning.
Students become more confident

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The impact on student learning is that it affords them the opportunity to deepen their understanding through discussions - learning from each other.

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Students should leave with a deeper understanding of the content because they will have been given the opportunity to synthesize the information in a way that is more than just the teacher talking and students listening.

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Increase student engagement in and ownership of the learning - greater level of investment in developing skill and mastering content. Not simply passive receptors of information. Also, creates a lower stakes space for practice and growth...

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Develop students who are able to articulate their thoughts and analysis so that they can share their own perspective, learn from their peers, and deepen and strengthen their own thinking and arguments. It builds students who will be strong thinkers, consumers, and citizens.

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- Accountability for content and objectives/learning targets
-  More practice with grade level, complex, academic vocabulary
- Strengthen students' reasoning abilities and their ability to critique the reasoning of others

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Empowers student so their voices are heard.
Gives students who are filling in the gaps of understanding due to a
language issue or special education issues a method or tool for filling in those gaps in knowledge building.
Students pick up so much from listening to their peers.

What resonates with me is the writing aspect.

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When students have the opportunity to interact with each in meaningful ways, their learning is deeper. They are able to make connections with each other that helps them to make further, deeper connections to the learning.  And so on. And so on.

It reminds me of  an enhanced version of autobiographical learning: students relate course material to their thoughts and experiences. ... when students connect the knowledge, concepts, and ideas which they acquire from the course to their past and present experiences, thoughts, work.

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-Students gain a stronger understanding of complex materials
-Students doing the "heavy lift" and learning from each other.

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This allows students to have an opportunity to share their thoughts and organize their own ideas as well as hear from others and build off what their classmates are saying.  This student discourse is directly linked to writing as students are now able to capture their ideas on paper at a much  higher level after sharing aloud.

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Drew                                   Student Work or Teacher Work? 

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Drew                                   Student Work or Teacher Work? 

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Sometimes we so highly scaffold student products
that it becomes difficult to discern if something is student work or actually adult work.  If we deepen student discourse before a writing task, we provide students with additional support and will have better data about what students actually know and can write about rather than what an adult prompts them to write/copy.