Moment of Uncertainty Practice
Throughout our examples and cases, we hope you’ll see the pattern of the “Moment of Uncertainty Practice” at work. Teachers surface uncertainty, then support discussion in which students engage with each other’s ideas, and do something with students’ ideas— drawing ideas and further questions together.
This tool has been developed to help make explicit this recurrent pattern and set of possible teacher moves. We have found this structure useful for slowing ourselves down in a moment of teaching. We have also used it to analyze classroom conversations to make sense of how uncertainty emerges and how teachers support students to work with uncertainty.