1. Flipped Instruction Description

101. Gallery Walk
Definition
A gallery walk involves a teacher placing stimulus questions on flip chart paper (butcher’s paper) around the walls of the classroom.
The charts the teacher has put up are stations that students will stop at during the activity.
The teacher places students into groups. If there are 5 stations around the room, the teacher will create 5 groups.
Students get a set amount of time at each station to read the prompt questions. The students can write on the chart paper with their group response and also respond to other groups who have already written their points.
Once all students have rotated through the stations, the students end up back at the station where they began. The teacher the. gives each group 3 minutes to present to the class a summary of the comments written on the paper at their station.
Benefits

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  Students get to learn from others and see other groups’ responses.
  
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  The students are up and moving about which may help the concentration of bodily-kinesthetic learners.
  

Challenges

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  Some students may not participate fully. Consider getting students to rotate who writes on the paper at each station to mitigate this challenge a little.
  

102. Metacognition
Definition
Note whenever you would encourage metacognition in a lesson within your lesson plan. This will help anyone reading it know that you’ve thought about giving students strategies for “thinking about thinking”.
Metacogntion is about thinking about how you think. Strategies include:

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  Thinking aloud
  
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  Writing your steps to reach an answer
  
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  Explaining your thought processes
  
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  Reflecting on your learning and considering faster ur more efficient processes
  

Benefits

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  Helps students understand the processes required for thinking deeply about an issue.
  
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  Gives students the strategies and skills to learn any task, not just the ones at hand.
  

Challenges

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  Metacognition is difficult because it requires explanation of your thinking. However, it is necessary if people want to know how to think.