What is a Reflecting Session

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What is a Reflecting Session?

• A time for readers and writers to share what they
  have learned with others in a way that makes
  their learning more permanent and applicable to
  other learning situations.

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What is a Reflecting Session?

• A Reflection Session can take different forms
  from whole class to pairs, trios or quads.

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What is a Reflecting Session?

• Teachers model and explicitly teach children to
  teach their peers in a Reflection Session
  children gradually take responsibility for
  planning Reflection Sessions and for ensuring
  that their students understand.

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What is a Reflecting Session?

• Teachers model various forms of Reflection
  Sessions before asking students to use them
  i.e., sessions in which partners share, whole
  class sessions and sessions that include teaching
  students outside the immediate class members.

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What is a Reflecting Session?

• Children conducting Reflection Sessions emphasize
  ways in which their students can apply what
  they learn in Reflection Sessions beyond the
  immediate application, i.e., how they might use
  the strategy being taught in other books or in
  their own writing.

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What is a Reflecting Session?

• Children who are in the role of learner while
  their peers are teaching are taught to ask the
  teacher questions, to challenge what is being
  shared, to argue diplomatically and to push the
  teacher to expand his/her thinking.

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What is a Reflecting Session?

• Reflection Sessions are concluded with a
  challenge to the learners to apply what has been
  taught in their own reading and writing.

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What is a Reflecting Session?

• All class members need regular opportunities to
  conduct Reflection Sessions.