The document describes the think-pair-share strategy, which involves students thinking individually, pairing up to discuss their ideas, and then sharing with the larger group. It is designed to encourage participation and ensure all students share their thinking. The key steps are for students to first think alone about a given problem or question, then pair with one other student to discuss their ideas, and finally reconvene as a larger group where pairs report their conversations to the class. The goal is to provide opportunities for both individual and shared thinking.

1. Think-Pair-Share Strategy
By Haibin Li

2. What’s Think-Pair-Share
• Think-Pair-Share is a strategy
designed to provide students with
"food for thought" on a given topics
enabling them to formulate
individual ideas and share these
ideas with another student.

3. How to Use Think-Pair-Share
• In this strategy, a problem is posed,
students have time to think about it
individually, and then they work in
pairs to solve the problem and share
their ideas with the class.

4. Why Think-Pair-Share
• It promotes classroom participation by
encouraging a high degree of pupil response.
• It provides an opportunity for all students to
share their thinking with at least one other
student.
• It increases their sense of involvement in
classroom learning.

5. Procedure for Think-Pair-Share
• Step One: Think
Have students reflect on a given question or write a
response in their journals.
• Step Two: Pair
Have students pair up with one other student and share
their responses.
• Step Three: Share
When the larger group reconvenes, ask pairs to report
back on their conversations. Alternatively, you could ask
students to share what their partner said.

6. Strategy Modeling
• Step 1: Think
Watch a video on Learning Disability (How
Difficult Can This Be) and think about it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xx5kr2T7rK
8&list=PLF6C1F5FB8916AD3D

7. Strategy Modeling
• Step 2: Pair
Please pair up to discuss the video and the
questions. You can discuss any of your opinion or
ideas about the video. The following is a list of
questions for your reference.
What have you learned from the video?
Does this video change your perception of
learning disability?
Is there anything you would like to change in
your teaching of LD students after viewing this
video?

8. Strategy Modeling
• Step 3: Share
Please share with the class your discussions,
opinions, ideas about the video.

9. Think-Pair-Share Strategy
Questions?