The Think Pair Share strategy is designed to allow students time to think individually, discuss in pairs, and share with the whole class. It aims to make students more active learners who better retain material. The strategy can be used across subjects and grades to check understanding, promote speaking and listening skills, and get students more engaged in lessons. It encourages metacognition as students think about and discuss their own understanding with peers before sharing. Technology can support Think Pair Share through tools for polling, blogging, and giving feedback.

1. CRITICAL
THINKING
WORKSHOP
CUR 515
Kristi Frost University of Phoenix
Stacy Erenberg Kimberly Testa
Dana Anderson

2. THINK PAIR SHARE
Strategy that is designed :
• The teacher asks an open-ended question
• students think quietly
• student pairs up with a partner and they
discuss the question
• the whole class engages in a discussion and
share their ideas they gathered.
Purpose:
• Allow time for students to think
• Students are active learners
• Retain given material better
• Students are more likely to participate in
small group settings

3. Think Pair Shareand Common Core Standards
 Check for Understanding: ELA
 CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.3.1.C
Ask questions to check understanding of
information presented, stay on topic,
and link their comments to the remarks
of others.
 Speaking and Listening
 CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.2.1a Follow
agreed-upon rules for discussions (e.g.,
gaining the floor in respectful ways,
listening to others with care, speaking
one at a time about the topics and texts
under discussion)
 Math:
 Math problems with more than one
correct answer.
 Estimation, Patterns, and Logic.
 CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.5.OA.B.3
Generate two numerical patterns using
two given rules. Identify apparent
relationships between corresponding
terms. Form ordered pairs consisting of
corresponding terms from the two
patterns and graph the ordered pairs on
a coordinate plane.
 (corestandards.org,2020)

4. Think Pair Share: Elementary
 This strategy is a cooperative learning
strategy
 The teacher should:
 models the technique with a volunteer
so the class knows what to do.
 emphasize the rules of this exercise with
your students.
 Remind students must use their inside
voices, take turns, and avoid interrupting
their partner.
https://sites.google.com/site/missmcleansclassroom/portfolio/think-pair-share

5. Think Pair Share : Secondary
• Secondary students can
participate in this activity
before during or after the
lesson .
• It can be used to make
sure students are
understanding the
concepts.
• It can be used all
subjects' areas.
https://derekbruff.org/?p=3117

6. Think Pair Share: Curriculum Application
Curriculum :
Math
Make use of the Think-Pair-Share strategy when dealing with
word problems.
Science
If some students are struggling to understand the process of
plant growth, lead a discussion on how plants start as little
seeds and grow into the final product?
How much do your students know about the International
Space Station? How do astronauts live, eat, and work?
.

7. Think Pair Share: Curriculum (continued)
Summarize the effect of a 90-degree
counterclockwise rotation on the coordinate
plane:
Why do the x and y values switch?
What quadrant are the new coordinates located
in?
Which value takes the opposite and why?
• Students think about their answers
• They group into pairs
• They share their answers on a classroom blog
with students and teacher giving immediate
feedback on their response to the question.
(TEC,2010)

8. Cognitive Process: Think Pair Share
• Can be adapted for different levels of
meta-cognitive thinking
• Recalling prior knowledge
• Explaining a concept
• Interpreting a situation
• Analyzing an idea
• Generating alternative solutions
• Justifying evidence
• Students become more aware of their
own thinking during the process
• Sharing their thoughts with their peers
improve their learning
• (Tomlinson,2014)

9. Technology Integration: Think Pair Share
Strategies for Integration
 Teachers can pose questions to all
students with data collection tools such
as Survey Monkey, Web Suveyor, and
Pollcat.
 Blogs and Wikis can provide immediate
feedback to students once questions are
posed and sharing has occurred.
 Teachers can design rubrics with
RubiStar and Rubrics for Web Lessons
that offer immediate feedback to
students.

10. Think Pair Share : Presentation Activity: Ice Breaker
 There are several ways for educators to
present think-pair-share in the
classroom:
 Every person receives one card
 Find a partner to discuss the question
on the card.
 As a group one person from each pair
share out one of the answers to the
question.
https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Think-Pair-Share-Ice-Breaker-Acivity-4558517

11. Resources
 Blooms Taxonomy (2020). Retrieved from https://www.teachthought.com/learning/
whatis-blooms-taxonomy-a-definition-for-teachers/
 Common core State Standards initiative(2020). Retrieved from
http://www.corestandards.org/what-parents-should-know
 Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (2012). Retrieved from
https://tea.texas.gov/Academics/Curriculum_Standards/TEKS_Texas_Essential_Kn
owledge_and_Skills_%28TEKS%29_Review/Mathematics_Texas_Essential_Knowledg
e_and_Skills
 Tomlinson. C. (2014). The Differentiated Classroom: Responding to the Needs of All
Learners (2nd ed.). Alexandria, VA: ASCD.
 Walsh, J. A., & Sattes, B. D. (2011). Thinking through quality questioning: deepening
student engagement . Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin. Retrieved from:
https://phoenix.vitalsource.com/#/books/9781452269191/cfi/20!/4/4@0.00:0.0
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