Question 1: What else?
To promote deeper and more rigorous participation in the learning and to share the cognitive load in lessons, students will often hear me ask: “What else?” Or perhaps more directly: “Say more about that.”
I want my students’ answers to have substance and be dynamic and I want them to think deeply. Developing a culture of extended responses rooted in insight relies on the students knowing a lot.
As Doug Lemov suggests in Teach Like a Champion (2015): “You need to know a lot about pretty much anything to think deeply about it. This is one of the most undervalued truths about learning.”
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