think-pair-share

English

Alternative forms

  • TPS (initialism)

Etymology

First proposed by Frank Lyman of the University of Maryland in 1981.

Noun

think-pair-share (countable and uncountable, plural think-pair-shares)

  1. (education) A collaborative teaching strategy in which the teacher poses a question or a problem to the students, who think about it and then pair up to discuss their thoughts.

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