The document outlines the key concepts of Dr. Ice which are deepening thinking, role modelling, impact on learning, challenge, and engagement. It provides details on using questioning to extend student thinking, modeling different levels of thinking, ensuring activities match learning objectives and success criteria, appropriately challenging all students, and keeping students engaged through innovative and interactive activities.

1. Session Objective: to outline the
key concepts of Dr Ice

2. DR ICE
Deepening Thinking
Role modelling
Impact on learning
Challenge
Engagement

3. Deepening Thinking
 Students should be required to develop their ideas and
to go beyond the surface.
 Questioning can be used to extend thinking.
 A big question at the start of the lesson that’s revisited
at the end
 A hook

4. The Hook

5. Role Modelling
 Pre planned
 Provide examples at different target levels
 Model thinking
 Peer role model/Peer assessment
 Teacher and student lead demonstrations
 Visualizer

6. Impact on Learning
 Do the activities that you have planned
match the success criteria set?
 Do your activities link directly to what is to
follow?
 Provide a space in the lesson to practise
skills.
 Provide reflection time and allow students
to set their own targets

7. Challenge
 Are all students suitably challenged?
 Does everyone have to have the same
starting point?
 Students are achieving at or above their
target grade
 Differentiation by outcome/resource/task
 Differentiated activities for all

8. Engagement
 Are all students engaged?
 Silence does not always mean engagement
 Are you activities interesting, innovative, thought
provoking, exciting.
Avoid –
 lengthy question and answer sessions
 Single students reading work to class
 Long teacher led exposition