What does "think-pair-share" mean?

A collaborative teaching strategy in which the teacher poses a question or a problem to the students, who think about it and then pair up to discuss their thoughts.

Think-pair-share

Q: What is a synonym for "think-pair-share"?

Common synonyms include: assessment routine, classroom protocol, classroom routine, collaborate, cooperative learning activity, discuss with partner.

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Noun

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A collaborative teaching strategy in which the teacher poses a question or a problem to the students, who think about it and then pair up to discuss their thoughts. countable, uncountable

Synonyms

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assessment routine classroom protocol classroom routine collaborate cooperative learning activity discuss with partner

Antonyms

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formal test independent work open discussion only solo activity

Etymology

First proposed by Frank Lyman of the University of Maryland in 1981.

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