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Oil the hinge! Continuing his series on teaching practice, Matt Bromley now looks at how to make multiple-choice, hinge questions work in your classroom and your teaching

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Works similar to the 4 quadrant partner strategy

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4 Quadrant Partners on a Coordinate Plain

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4 Quadrant Partners on a Coordinate Plain

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Students can be easily grouped by you or themselves. Students choose (or are assigned) a partner for each quadrant on the coordinate plane. The teacher says, "get together with your quadrant III partner,” and the students know where to go. As well as they learn a little math lingo!

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In Traffic Lights Students have coloured cups (red/yellow/green) or a two-sided disk (red/green) on their desks. As a lesson is being taught or during work time, they display a colour. Green means they understand. Yellow means they are having some difficulties. Red means they have a question or need help.  Then as a reflection tool Near the conclusion of a unit of study, the students self assess. Red means they don’t feel they succeeded at learning the material. Yellow means they have some understanding but still work to do. Green means they feel they completely mastered the material.

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In Vertical Surface, Students work on vertical surfaces like windows, whiteboards, and table tops. When they are stuck, they can step back and look at another group's work to get feedback on how to move forward.  Online shared google slides, jamboard or padlets can function the same way.

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Using digital polling tools like the polling feature in google meet or Zoom, polleverywhere (google slides extension), kahoot.

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Ask students to physically line up against a wall according to how deeply they agree or disagree with a statement. Alternatively you can label the four corners of the classroom The teacher makes a statement or asks a question and the students move to a corner and have a conversation. Each group comes up with their arguments. They are presented to the other groups to see if they can sway anyone to their answer. Students move groups as they change their answers. This is a great way to incorporate activity while learning.

The students work on whiteboards to brainstorm, record ideas, or respond to a question or prompt. The impermanence of their work makes it very low risk and increases engagement. Student responses are easy to see as the teacher moves around the room. Students might write an answer on a white board and hold it up so the teacher can see. The teacher scans the responses and decides what to do next.

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The ABC Brainstorming strategy utilizes the alphabet to allow students to draw from their current knowledge to describe a topic. They draw these connections by listing words and phrases they believe or know to relate to the topic. The strategy aims to have students brainstorm words starting with each of the 26 letters.  The students can think of an array of words or phrases to fill out the page. In some instances the use of synonyms will help students reach the goal of filling out the entire page. By the end of the activity students should have an ample list of words and phrases that can then be linked to the topic to be discussed (source: https://tranbt.wixsite.com/literacy-strategy/abc-brainstorming#:~:text=The%20ABC%20Brainstorming%20strategy%20utilizes,each%20of%20the%2026%20letters.)

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ReadingQuest Strategies | ABC Brainstorm

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Literacy and reading comprehension strategies for use across all content areas.

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Hand Signals (Thumbs Up / Fist to Five): Students can indicate a response to a question: Thumbs up or down in the case of a yes/no, true/false or agree/disagree response; or a number of fingers when there are more than two possible responses. . By glancing around the room or screen, you can make a quick decision about how to adjust instruction.

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Because hand signals allow students to engage both verbally and nonverbally, conversations that use them can be more inclusive. Teachers can post the hand signals in the classroom or share them online so that students can easily refer to the visual reminder.

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Using Hand Signals for More Equitable Discussions

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Because hand signals allow students to engage both verbally and nonverbally, conversations that use them can be more inclusive. Teachers can post the hand signals in the classroom or share them online so that students can easily refer to the visual reminder.