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, and the students are given sufficient time to think and gather their thoughts, after which the teacher asks them to pair themselves and share their thoughts with each other.

Derived terms

• think-pair-sharing