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TTO

Home Group Learning Gather Responses TTO

TTO -Think, Talk, Open Exchange

Instructional Goal:  Share with others and gain feedback by finding similarities and differences

Print: TTO Directions |  TTO PowerPoint

Strengths of this routine:

  • Talk part is not-threatening so students are inclined to participate.
  • Students can efficiently clarify confusions, correct homework, check for understanding, and generate ideas through this routine.

Roles: One Speaker, Two Listeners, One Time keeper (can be the facilitator for the entire group or one of the listeners. It is useful to set a timer so that no one has to watch a clock.)

Note: Whenever a participant’s task is to listen then the participant cannot talk.

Steps:

Starting Position:  Initial Thoughts                                                   Chart paper Directions for TTO

  1. Prepare initial thoughts to share with the group.

Actions: Think – Talk –  (repeat) – Open Exchange

  1. Determine who is going first in small groups sitting knee to knee and eye to eye.
  2. Think about your role, speaker, listener.
  3. Talk:  Speaker: describes a question, dilemma, or resonating ideas. Listeners: Two other learners listen without interrupting. No one but the speaker talks during this time period. If the speaker finishes before the time is up then the group uses the extra time to think.
  4. Think: Everyone takes time to think about what they heard. During think time learners may jot down questions, record connections, patterns, and surprises, and take notes.
  5. Repeat steps 2 – 4 (changing roles so that everyone has a chance to be the Speaker)
  6. Open Exchange: Discuss patterns in what was shared. Ask questions to clarify and probe ideas. The only rule is that everyone must both give and take ideas.

Return

  1. Return to the intial thoughts to add, confirm, and change record of thinking based on learning through TTO – annotate changes to make learning visible.

This structure is based on the Micro Lab Protocol from the National School Reform web site.


LESG Scientific Vocabulary TeamSee an example of how to measure the impact of TTO on student learning. In this video, New Visions for Public Schools Living Environment science teachers describe how they use TTO to increase vocabulary use in the classroom.

Scientific Buzzwords in Action
Source: New Visions for Public Schools – Living Environment Curriculum

 


Try this variant of TTO: Triad Stations at Different Times in a Mini-Lesson

Classroom Examples

Triad Stations with Adjoua

December 7, 2016Rhonda Bondie

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Triad Stations with TTO: Joel’s Classroom

December 6, 2016Rhonda Bondie

Meet Joel who teaches Math and Special Education to students learning English as a Multiple language in the South Bronx, New York City. In this post, we share tools that Joel made to help students listen to each other and monitor their…

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