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From http://leesensei.edublogs.org

Teacher Colleen Lee-Hayes writes,

“I know we’ve all seen it – the student who won’t/can’t/doesn’t want to participate until they know they won’t say something incorrectly. Or maybe you’ve had the one who won’t work with others because they’re afraid they’ll use a word they don’t know. How do we teach for communication and not for understanding? How do we help students to not fear a word – and to carry on a conversation confidently and without fear?”

Read on to see what Ms. Lee-Hayes does in her classroom to make her students comfortable with “I don’t understand”: http://leesensei.edublogs.org/2014/11/10/saying-i-dont-understand-with-confidence/#.VGT4KYdDwup