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Classroom delivery · Level Advanced · Classroom Classroom Interaction
Interaction: not 'any questions'
'Any questions' is always met with silence.
Prompt
Three things in class: get them doing, surface misunderstanding, make feedback specific. Being eloquent is not the goal.
Task: 'Any questions' is always met with silence.
[Before you start, do three things]
1. Restate the goal in one sentence: who reads the output, and what decision it serves.
2. If I have not given you the following, ask me. Do not assume:
- content and hard points
- class size
- online or offline
- timing
3. Say how you plan to do it (at most 5 steps) and wait for my go-ahead.
[Go through each of these]
- ask them to write their least certain point
- pair-share for three minutes
- three concrete interaction designs
- where in the session each fits
[Process]
1. Read the room before following the plan
2. Surface misunderstanding with questions
3. Feedback on behaviour and next step, never on the person
4. Separate tasks by level
5. Leave two minutes for their recap
[Output]
Reading the room, questions, feedback, tiers, close.
[Do not]
- Never embarrass anyone
- Never 'this is so simple'
- Do not skip practice to keep pace
- 'Any questions' is not interactionWhat to state before it starts
Leave these unsaid and the model fills them with an assumption. Most 'wrong answers' start here.
- content and hard points
- class size
- online or offline
- timing
Go through each of these
Where this kind of work most often goes wrong. Already in the prompt, so you do not have to remember it.
- ask them to write their least certain point
- pair-share for three minutes
- three concrete interaction designs
- where in the session each fits