Etymology

think-pair-share

Today it means: A collaborative teaching strategy in which the teacher poses a question or a problem to the students, who think about it and then pair up to discuss their thoughts. Full definition →

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The story

First proposed by Frank Lyman of the University of Maryland in 1981.

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