1. Flipped Instruction Description

Theoretical Link
Sociocultural theory: we learn and extend our knowledge through social interaction. By seeing others’ points, we can improve or amend our own.
Examples

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   One way to do this is to have a flip chart paper sheet (butcher’s paper) on a wall with a discussion prompt written above. Have students walk up to the paper intermittently thought a lesson to write responses to the prompt. After the first few students write their responses, the rest of the students must respond not to the prompt but to the answers written by previous students – how can they add to or challenge what someone else has already said?
   
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   The second common way of having a silent conversation is to pass a piece of paper around the class and have students write their responses to conversation chains on the piece of paper.
   

68. Devil’s Advocate
Definition
A devil’s advocate is someone who argues for an opposing point of view in order to stir up an argument and poke holes in other points of view. The devil’s advocate does not necessarily need to believe the points they are arguing. Either the teacher or students can be the devil’s advocate I’m this teaching strategy.
Benefits

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  Encourages students to see their own blind spots or misunderstandings.
  
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  Helps students to see a diversity of points of view.
  
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  Improves students’ debating skills.
  

Challenges

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  Students and parents may interpret you devil’s advocate position as an attempt to teach unsavory views in the classroom.
  

Theoretical Link
Critical theory: A devil’s advocate can help students with skills desirable within critical theory, like seeing views of people who are not commonly heard in society and the capacity to critique dominant narratives in society.
Examples

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   The teacher can note in their lesson plan moments when they believe there are opportunities to play devil’s advocate role promote debate.
   
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   The teacher can give students debating points where one person acts as devil’s advocate and another as the person defending the dominant perspective.