The rumblings I am beginning to hear about artificial intelligence, like ChatGPT, sound reminiscent of those long-ago laments about calculators. This time, it is not just the math teachers who are raising an alarm: language arts teachers are joining the chorus.
Teachers are spies. Wouldn’t you agree? Teachers constantly gather intelligence to determine where students are in their learning process. They are searching for each student’s zone of proximal development (ZPD). The zone of proximal development is a concept in educational psychology that represents the space between what a learner is capable of doing unsupported and what the learner cannot do even with support.
Our middle school is piloting the newly released Inspiring Connections program at the 6th grade level. The authors have designed strategic Launches that promote discourse and raise the status of each class member. Each Launch is an activity that typically lasts between five to ten minutes at the beginning of the lesson.
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