Argumentation PD with Jacinta Oldheaver and Dr. Cynthia Greenleaf
Dr. Cynthia Greenleaf www.readingapprenticeship.org set norms - trust to diagree and the idea that no one is right or wrong means that the students can let out their thoughts without fear. Practicing this with a low stakes task is effective. Do the argumenatation activity. Revisit your norms- go meta, decide what we did well and what we can improve on. Slip or Trip how did you work with others to figure this out? Break it down and do smaller groups- engages more students. Put a Kiwi kids news, can we comment on it? Are we using kiwi kids news so that we could argue? Comment on the class blog as a discussion, using evidence and typing. This could be done once a week as a must do. What do you think? can print out these conversatoins and then let them go back and revisit. Review their norms vis this. Reflection on Learning: After the session with Cynthia it was clear to me that the norms I have set in my class for discussions, both around learning or agreeing a
