The Pair Share and the Self Explanation Prompts

Michael: I was still having the issue, even with my year 12s, of them being sufficiently focused and bringing them back. The self explanation prompts come from research that aims to understand why students sometimes don't learn from worked examples. And they prompt themselves with questions like "Wait, why is this? Wait, how could that be?" Michael: There's lots of different kinds of explanations which can help kids do all of them. So there's rankle made an important contribution.