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The four corners strategy is a technique that's used to move students away from their desks. It has been noted that some students absorb lesson content better when they are on the move. All a teacher needs to do to apply the four corners strategy is to label a room that's used by the class. Each corner of the room is to have a label. The first and second corners should be labeled agree and strongly agree respectively, while the third and fourth should be labeled disagree and strongly disagree. The teacher should then read a factual statement from the lesson content and ask learners to move to the corners of their choice with regard to the statement that has been made by the teacher. Allow learners to deliberate on the reasons that compel them to take the stand they have on the statement. Once the deliberations are over, let representatives from each corner share with the rest of the class the reasons why they chose to move to their corner. Such information will help the teacher adjust future lessons accordingly (Regier, 2012).
How Four Corners Is Used
Here is the step-by-step process for the implementation (Four Corners, 2016).
1. Prepare
Create a controversial question or statement that is based on your chosen topic of study. Develop four varying opinions such as agree, strongly agree, disagree and strongly disagree based on your chosen question or statement. Label these opinions on four different chart papers and pin them in four separate corners. These choices can also be posted on an overhead projector with answers or opinions to each of the questions or statements provided in multiple choice form. Each corner can be assigned random letters e.g. arbitrary letter...
APQT or ABCD.
2. Present
Read the statement aloud to the class and avoid giving them choices. Allow enough time for learners to muse over the possible responses to the question or statement. The teacher can ask the learners to note down their response and explain it below each respective question or statement. Proceed to provide the choices to the answers. Ask the learners to pick the option that is closest to their answer.
3. Commit to a Corner
Ask the learners to move to the corner of their choice based on the answer responses they have picked. Learners should then split into groups of two or three to deliberate the reasons for settling on the choices they have.
4. Discuss
Give the students a two or three minutes' allowance for discussion to occur. Thereafter, students should be asked to present group summaries of their discussions. An oral or written presentation is acceptable.
When to Use it
Four corners should be used at any time by the teacher in the classroom to nurture productive conversation (Four Corners, 2016).
• Prior to introducing fresh content to link to earlier concepts learnt
• After viewing a film clip that's controversial so as to gauge reaction
• Prior to the start of a discussion following reading of a short text
• Right in the middle of a usual…
References
Four Corners. (2016). Retrieved from The Teacher Toolkit: http://www.theteachertoolkit.com/index.php/tool/four-corners
Regier, N. (2012). 60 Formative Assessment Strategies. Regier Educational Resources.
Schoenerr, A. B. (2016). Four Corners Teaching Strategy. Retrieved from ehow: http://www.ehow.com/way_5809507_four-corners-teaching-strategy.html
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