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Critical Component #3: Shared Inquiry and Dialogue
Dialogue is more than conversation. It is also different than debates, in which someone wins and someone loses. Dialogue requires openness to new ideas and collective learning. This is not an easy practice; for students (and teachers) to engage in dialogue, they must build and exercise specific skills:

Without saying a word, classrooms send messages about diversity, relationship building, communication, and the roles of teachers and students. The classroom setup should be student-centered. Specifics will vary from teacher to teacher and class to class, but common elements include the following:

Critical Component #3: Shared Inquiry and Dialogue
Dialogue is more than conversation. It is also different than debates, in which someone wins and someone loses. Dialogue requires openness to new ideas and collective learning.

Classroom management is central to classroom culture. Classroom management systems must support safe, inclusive communities by promoting high standards for respectful interaction; incorporating student-generated classroom norms; teaching conflict resolution; and actively addressing all instances of bias, bullying, exclusion, or disrespect.
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Ask the student to submit a reflection about whether the accommodation helped with demonstrating knowledge. Whenever possible, we prefer to receive the student’s original work rather than a transcript or summary of the student’s reflection. The format of the reflection can accommodate the age or disability (e.g., written, audio) of the student. If, to meet this requirement, it is necessary to submit a transcript of a conversation with the student, please report the student’s responses verbatim.

Identify a student with a disability in your classroom. Specifically, identify a student who has difficulty in a typical classroom setting demonstrating knowledge. For example, the student might not be able to respond through typical response formats like written tests. To protect the privacy of your student, please use a first name only, or else use an alias.

Describe the student you selected, making sure to include:
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Emphasize higher-order thinking:
The educator emphasizes questions that require higher-order thinking (analysis, evaluation, application, interpretation, and making connections) rather than surface-level questions that merely test recall. Though it is acceptable to include lower-order questions at the beginning of the lesson or at points when students need to establish meaning in the text, students should be spending most of their time thinking beyond the surface of the text.
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Align to an Objective:
Expert readers read with a purpose in mind. Because it is impossible to commit every word of every text that they read to memory, they see reading as a selective process, where some aspects of the text are carefully scrutinized and others de-emphasized. Likewise, we want students to focus their attention when they read and for the questions that they answer to support that focus.


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