{"id":1068,"date":"2021-12-03T17:05:18","date_gmt":"2021-12-04T01:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/managementtoolbox\/?p=1068"},"modified":"2021-12-06T09:24:14","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T17:24:14","slug":"silent-thumbs-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/managementtoolbox\/silent-thumbs-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Silent Thumbs Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Student Contributor: L. Welling<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"252\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/managementtoolbox\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/204\/2021\/12\/Unknown.jpeg\" class=\"size-medium alignleft wp-image-1069\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>Silent Thumbs Up is a method for communicating whether or not students have completed a task or assignment. It is a great way to allow students to communicate without disturbing others by talking.<\/p>\n<p>Silent Thumbs Up is a preventative measure used to for communication. It is used when prompted by the teacher or when students want to show they have completed the task without looking like they have a question. Silent Thumbs Up is a raised thumb in the air that can be used during independent work time and partner or group work time. When implementing this tool, it is crucial to decide if it is done because of: teacher prompting, students taking responsibility to communicate their own progress, or both. It is important to teach students the how, when and why of the tool. When using this tool, I asked students to give me a silent thumbs up when they had completed the problem or task they were working on.<\/p>\n<p>I placed this tool in the preventative phase because it is a way to prevent students from talking or distracting others between tasks. Students will often take advantage of any down time to talk to friends. Silent Thumbs Up helps the teacher to get a read on student progress during lessons and activities so that informed decisions can be made about whether it\u2019s an appropriate time to move on to the next task. Silent Thumbs Up could also be placed under in the supportive phase because it is used to create a learning environment where students get the time that they need to complete what they are doing without major distractions. Silent Thumbs Up is placed in the collaborative category because it is a joint effort and responsibility of both the teacher and students.<\/p>\n<p>More Information &#8211;<br \/>\nTool Source: The idea for this tool came from a former teacher of mine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silent Thumbs Up is a method for communicating whether or not students have completed a task or assignment. It is a great way to allow students to communicate without disturbing others by talking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3632,"featured_media":1069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpo365_audiences":[],"wpo365_private":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[7,8,10,5],"class_list":["post-1068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-preventative","tag-3rd-5th","tag-6th-8th","tag-collaborative","tag-k-2nd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/managementtoolbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/managementtoolbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/managementtoolbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/managementtoolbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3632"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/managementtoolbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/managementtoolbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1070,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/managementtoolbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068\/revisions\/1070"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/managementtoolbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/managementtoolbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/managementtoolbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/managementtoolbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}