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  • Teacher Toolbox
    • Thinking Routines
    • Comprehension Strategies
    • Metacognition Strategies
    • Discourse Strategies
    • Formative Assessments Strategies
  • Professional Resources
    • Common Core
    • Cultures of Thinking
    • Life-Long Learners
    • Reading & Vocabulary
    • Standards Based Grading
    • Writing
  • Our Journey
    • Hart Middle School
    • Reuther Middle School
    • Rochester High School
    • Van Hoosen Middle School
    • West Middle School
  • Creative Ideas
  • Conferences
    • Moving Learning Forward 2015 Conference
    • Moving Learning Forward 2014 Conference

Step Inside

A routine for capturing inside perspectives.                                                                                                                          
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Description:  The Step Inside thinking routine structures students’ thinking and deepens their understanding about a person/thing. It focuses on perspective and asks the learner to hypothesize what this person/thing observes, understands, believes, cares about, and questions. This routine pushes students further than what they might do in the Circle of Viewpoints thinking routine.

How to Use the Strategy: 

Refer to pages 178-184 in the book Making Thinking Visible: How to Promote Engagement, Understanding, and Independence for All Learners.

Access online instructions here at Harvard Project Zero.

See the routine in practice here at Harvard Project Zero.

Content Application:

* Combine the Step Inside routine with a Chalk Talk.  Assign students a role in which they must write in the Chalk Talk from that point of view. 
Resources 
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Step Inside Poster.pdf
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In Character Chat.docx
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Step Inside Template.docx
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step_inside_legal_size_template.docx
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