Let's chat about an easy way to push students' observations, analyses, and questioning to a higher level.

Using a strategy known as "Think Like A Disciplinarian," students are challenged to take on the perspective of an expert in a field or topic. Students ask questions, make observations, and draw relevant conclusions that a specific disciplinarian would note about our topic of study.

• Why is this helpful for teaching higher order thinking skills?

• Taking on a specific perspective allows students to openly ask questions and analyze a topic in a more complex way, vs just making our own observations as 5th graders

• Social pressure of being viewed as "wrong" or not knowing something everyone else knows is virtually eliminated when we shoulder the questions onto an imaginary disciplinarian.

• Inspires complex questioning that helps students reach a deeper understanding of the content

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