Reciprocal+Teaching


 * Reciprocal Teaching**

Reciprocal teaching is a form of dialogue where the teacher models the steps of the dialogue and encourages students to assume the role of the teacher in a group or in pairs. It is used to justify reasons, resolve differences, and listen actively to another person’s point of view. Reciprocal teaching involves four strategies for improving comprehension: question generation, summarization, clarification, and prediction. Reciprocal teaching promotes flexibility to use the strategies as the situation requires. It engages students as teachers after the strategies are mastered.
 * Description**

The teacher: • models the steps of the process; • encourages students to reach consensus on issues in the clarification stage; • encourages students to assume the role of the teacher.
 * Method**

Reciprocal teaching: • requires extensive training and modelling before students become proficient in all strategies; • recognizes that generating questions may be the most difficult step for students to master; • benefits from the addition of question-response cues.
 * Considerations**


 * Illustrations From The Mathematics Classroom**

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 * Elementary**

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 * Secondary**