Utilizing The three-2-1 Studying Technique For Vital Considering – TeachThought

by Terry Heick

What’s the 3-2-1 technique? The three-2-1 technique is solely a format that may body–properly, actually something.

Examples Of The three-2-1 Technique

It doesn’t even should be about about educating and studying. You may ask somebody to call…

3 of your favourite genres of music, 2 of your favourite songs, and 1 sample you seen making that listing of genres and songs

3 cities you’ve visited, 2 of your favourite reminiscences of these 3 cities, and 1 place you’d prefer to go subsequent

3 causes of air pollution, 2 options that would assist deal with these causes, and 1 factor an individual can do daily to assist instantly/have an instantaneous impact

You get the thought. It’s only a easy solution to body a subject or process, making it appear accessible and ‘fast.’ For academics, this implies the potential for greater scholar engagement and extra doable makes use of in your classroom, from journal or dialogue prompts to evaluation kinds or exit slips.

The commonest use of 3-2-1 I’ve seen is in response to a studying or lesson–often 3 belongings you realized, 2 issues that made you curious or confused, and 1 most necessary factor you realized or ought to do with what you’ve realized.

Utilizing The three-2-1 Studying Technique For Vital Considering

In 15 Reflection Methods To Assist College students Retain What You Simply Taught Them, I wrote, “3-2-1 is a tried-and-true solution to body something from a pair-share or journal entry (e.g., ask college students to jot down 3 issues they assume they know, 2 issues they know they don’t know, and one factor they’re sure of a few subject) pre-assessment to a post-assessment (e.g., listing 3 ways your essay mirrored mastery of ability X, two methods ability Y nonetheless wants enhancing, and a method you may make your argument stronger within the subsequent 5 minutes) to a mirrored image of the post-assessment.”

In going again and rereading the submit not too long ago, it occurred to me that the 3-2-1 (or 1-2-3–and even simply 2-1 and 1-2) format is perhaps a easy technique for essential considering. The ‘3-2-1’ sequence itself doesn’t maintain important potential apart from its capacity to border the potential of different methods.

Observe that these are simply tough examples of utilizing the 3-2-1 for studying. Be happy to take any of those and enhance them or create your personal based mostly on an concept you get studying them. : )

Additionally notice, I take advantage of typically obscure or imprecise phrases like ‘factor’ and ‘identify’ and ‘might have’ and ‘may need.’ I did this to make it common sufficient to be plainly helpful to a variety of grade ranges of content material areas. The ‘factor’ might be something from fractions or the water cycle to a dialogue about Shakespearean sonnets. (In that method, it’s much like the 6 Domains Of Cognition TeachThought Studying Taxonomy.)

The purpose I hope to make is that the 3-2-1 technique is a straightforward solution to body something–which suggests it’s a useful gizmo for educating essential considering.

Analytical/Conceptual

3 variations between metaphors and symbolism, 2 issues they’ve in frequent, and 1 common impact on a textual content that they every have

3 underlying assumptions of democracy, 2 frequent misunderstandings of democracy, 1 motive democracies have endured as a type of fashionable authorities

You may even have requested college students to call 3 strengths of democracy, 2 types of democracy, and 1 method it may need to evolve to keep up relevance in a altering world (misinformation, deep fakes, propaganda, partisanship, and so forth.)

Write 3 questions on the recall or understanding stage, 2 questions on the ‘apply’ stage, and 1 query on the consider stage

Dialogue/Listening/Debate

3 methods you agree, 2 methods you disagree, and 1 factor you realized (or that stunned you) throughout your dialog

3 issues they stated, 2 factors they made, 1 factor you’d prefer to know extra about

3 issues I do know (typically) about mindset, 2 examples of the impact of mindset (typically), 1 factor I’ve seen about my mindset as we speak/earlier than or throughout this lesson/not too long ago, and so forth. (particularly)

3 methods my considering happens simply or naturally for me, 2 methods my considering requires focus or effort on my half, 1 adjustment I could make in response

3 issues I bear in mind considering in the course of the lesson, 2 issues I bear in mind doing in the course of the lesson, and 1 factor I might’ve achieved however didn’t

Time-Based mostly

Spend 3 minutes summarizing, 2 minutes clarifying, and 1 minute writing one sentence that concisely summarizes the ‘factor’

3 issues I might do with what I’ve realized, 2 issues that different folks do with this sort of data or ability, 1 factor I am going to do with what I’ve realized

3 similarities, 2 variations, 1 question-to-guide-future-learning

3 issues I realized, 2 issues that have been a bit complicated, 1 ‘massive concept’ that sums up the relevance of all of it

3 open-ended questions, 2 closed questions, 1 deepening query

3 clarifying questions, 2 probing questions, 1 contextualizing query

Lesson Planning: What are 3 ways I’ve designed with sufficient flexibility to satisfy the wants of a variety of learners? What are two questions or challenges I anticipate? If they’ll solely be taught one factor from this lesson, what do I need it to be (ideally in a single sentence)?

Curriculum Planning: What are three most necessary ‘massive concepts’ on this curriculum? (Clearly, this may very well be any quantity–six, ten, and so forth.) How can they unify the ‘much less necessary’ or much less broad concepts? What are curriculum planning methods I can use to advertise enduring understanding (or essential considering, switch, and so forth.)? What’s one change I could make to this curriculum to make it extra versatile for all learners?

See 20 Sorts Of Questions For Vital Considering

Studying Response Immediate Examples

Non-fiction textual content/easy: Title 3 belongings you bear in mind or realized from the studying, 2 issues that made you confused or stunned, and 1 factor you’d prefer to be taught extra about

Non-fiction textual content/much less easy: Title 3 examples of textual content construction, analyze 2 ways in which construction affected its which means, and identify 1 declare that the textual content appeared to make that was or was not well-supported

Fiction: Describe 3 methods the writer developed the protagonist over the course of the guide, describe 2 ways in which improvement affected the plot’s improvement, and determine and clarify 1 change the writer might’ve made in that improvement and the way that change would have affected the which means of the textual content/your enjoyment of the textual content, and so forth.

Utilizing The three-2-1 Studying Technique For Vital Considering