Classroom Routines: Participation

1. No Opt Out. You must answer the question and may do it with help from the teacher and/or other classmates. This expectation eliminates the acceptability of "I don't know" yet builds in the opportunity for students to arrive at or contribute to the desired answer.

2. Right is right. If it's not right yet, it will be when it's done. No credit for inaccurate information. We don't want to lower our expectations for students by telling them something is correct when it is not. Or for giving them credit for something interesting when it's not what's being addressed. We want students to have:

• right answer/topic at the right time
• a correct part of the complete response or the complete response

3. Stretch it

• how did you get that answer?
• what's another way to get that answer?

4. Correct format for the answer-codeswitch as necessary

5.  Without apology for content. You should never have to suffer through content because someone else said. You can make anything interesting.