Promote focus and reflection while allowing individuals to compose responses thoughtfully and calmly in writing. This can help generate and gather large amounts of data quickly and can amplify or punctuate large group interactions.

Here are some adaptations and alternative prompts: 

• Although the example above uses questions that are general about someone’s thoughts and feelings about the new semester, you can adapt it to have content-related questions about a reading or course module.
• Can be done asynchronously, where the teacher sends the video and asks students to post one thing on discussion forum and respond to others.
• Can skip the break out rooms and replace by asynchronous pairing via email or class discussion board.

Example prompts for each quadrant:

• You can create content-based prompts for each quadrant. E.g. after a class reading, students can reflect on a key thing they learned, a big question they have, a word or quote they enjoyed, and how the reading made them feel.
• List 7 things you’ve seen, heard, felt/did, and compose a small drawing.
• What have you noticed & observed, so what seems important about that data, now what’s needed next.
• In times of grief/trauma: Yes it is true that [Affirmation]; It is hard because [Despair]; I will always remember/I will never forget [Reconnection]; Now that I have shared my loss, it may be possible to [Active Hope].