Ranking

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This protocol helps students consider which ideas, issues, and feelings are playing a significant role in shaping their personal response to a work.

Process

  1. Give each student 5-10 sticky notes.  Ask them to write down ideas, issues, and feelings the text or body of work made them consider or experience in one to two words. 
  2. Ask each student to rank the slips, considering the following question:  In your personal reading, understanding, and response to the work, which of these ideas, issues, and feelings are most significant?  
  3. Ask students to share their rankings with a partner and record them in their portfolios.

Variation

  1. Distribute 10 (lettered) slips to each student that contain predominant ideas, issues, and feelings developed in the work.  These can be teacher generated or be a collection taken from a former brainstorming activity.
  2. Ask each student to rank the slips, considering the following question:  In your personal reading, understanding, and response to the work, which of these ideas, issues, and feelings are most significant?  
  3. Instruct students to number their slips:  1 = most significant; 10 = least significant.
  4. The teacher gathers up the slips and separates them according to letter.
  5. Add up the numerical values for each letter.
  6. Post the results (physically or digitally).

Credits

Adapted from: “The Adaptive School:  Strategies and Moves for Facilitating Groups”.  Thinking Collaborative, https://www.thinkingcollaborative.com/as-resources

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