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TAG Feedback
Teaching STEM
This strategy helps students provide constructive feedback to peers.
![Chat discussion icons](/sites/default/files/styles/resource_card_image_360x300_/public/2022-01/chat-discussion-icons.jpg?itok=-OG8KfJC)
Say Something
Teaching STEM
This strategy helps students participate actively in group discussions.
![Page from a dictionary](/sites/default/files/styles/resource_card_image_360x300_/public/2022-01/dictionary_entry.jpg?itok=4HkaeSfn)
Visual Dictionary
Teaching STEM
This strategy helps students develop a deeper understanding of new words or concepts.
![Two students having a discussion](/sites/default/files/styles/resource_card_image_360x300_/public/2022-01/further-education-candid.jpg?itok=vWGNgyMo)
AB Each Teach
Teaching STEM
This strategy helps students identify key ideas from a text, video, or other content and share these with a partner.
![The number four made out of trees (leonard_c, iStockphoto)](/sites/default/files/styles/resource_card_image_360x300_/public/2022-01/number-4-trees.jpg?itok=MpQNb17b)
The 4C’s
Teaching STEM
This strategy helps students think more deeply during text-based discussions.
![Four students putting their heads together](/sites/default/files/styles/resource_card_image_360x300_/public/2022-01/group-of-four-happy-multiethnic-friends.jpg?itok=SC8Fqwgx)
Three A’s Plus One
Teaching STEM
This strategy helps students develop collaboration skills by providing a structure for focused dialogue about a text.
![Student makes notes in a book he is reading](/sites/default/files/styles/resource_card_image_360x300_/public/2022-01/study-at-home.jpg?itok=6msGXWXT)
Marking Text
Teaching STEM
This strategy helps students make sense of the text they are interacting with.
![Figure stepping up a set of stairs](/sites/default/files/styles/resource_card_image_360x300_/public/2021-11/stairs-g5b1691e30_1280.jpg?itok=KaHnXwmp)
Considering Perspectives - Step in, Step out, Step back
Teaching STEM
This strategy helps students develop a respectful approach to taking on another person’s perspective.
![Students discussing a subject in the classroom](/sites/default/files/styles/resource_card_image_360x300_/public/2021-11/class-ge29e96db6_1280.jpg?itok=ALDCw9rU)
Knowledge Building Circle
Teaching STEM
This strategy helps students co-construct collective knowledge.
![A diverse group of students studying a set of papers spread out on a table](/sites/default/files/styles/resource_card_image_360x300_/public/2022-09/Four%20corners%20header.jpg?itok=3x5me13y)
Four Corners
Teaching STEM
This learning strategy helps students to make decisions about a problem or question.
![The four 8's in a standard deck of cards](/sites/default/files/styles/resource_card_image_360x300_/public/2021-11/8cards.jpg?itok=3wNrW85E)
Crazy 8s
Teaching STEM
This strategy helps students to brainstorm ideas as a group.
![A student, thinking](/sites/default/files/styles/resource_card_image_360x300_/public/2019-11/Predicting.jpg?itok=N4tkk7zM)
Predicting
Teaching STEM
The skill of predicting involves forecasting what is believed will occur in the future.
![Students with raised hands](/sites/default/files/styles/resource_card_image_360x300_/public/2019-11/Questioning.jpg?itok=qq5jjmx6)
Questioning
Teaching STEM
The skill of questioning allows students to pursue their ideas and explore the world around them.
![Students making a plan](/sites/default/files/styles/resource_card_image_360x300_/public/2019-11/Planning.jpg?itok=XjklFEOf)
Planning
Teaching STEM
Planning is a thinking skill that involves identifying methods, materials and a sequence of events to reach a goal, complete a project or accomplish a task.
![Students observing](/sites/default/files/styles/resource_card_image_360x300_/public/2019-11/Observing.jpg?itok=ndInefKl)
Observing
Teaching STEM
The skill of observing involves using all of the senses, as appropriate, to find out about the characteristics, properties and attributes of objects, places and events.