Tableau


 * Tableau**

Tableau is a purposeful arrangement of a group of people representing a moment frozen in time. Tableau may be used to explore sequence, plot development, and characterization by arranging a number of tableaux in a series. Tableau is also used to access prior learning about a character, genre, text, current event, or historical event. A tableau shows the feeling of characters at a particular time and may reveal relationships between characters by promoting interpretation of text, character, or a situation. Tableau can be used to initiate or summarize discussion and provides a comfortable format for the development of collaborative group skills.
 * Description**

The teacher:
 * Method**
 * describes characteristics of the form;
 * provides opportunity and purpose for presentation.

Tableau:
 * Considerations**
 * may provide opportunities in many subjects to represent material to be explored, such as historical events, chemical interactions, artistic composition.
 * may provide opportunities for older students to do a series of tableaux with short narration in between to link “frozen pictures.”


 * Illustrations From The Mathematics Classroom**

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 * Elementary**

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 * Secondary**