Dialogic Teaching


Where am I at: 

 How well do you think you are at getting students to do the 'heavy lifting' of classroom talk? 

I'm on the journey, I'd say 35 / 100 Reason? My head and my heart are in it, but my habits need reforming. I've started, but now I'm working at gaining the skill and practising them in a live teaching situation.

What I learned: 
- A range of tools / strategies for including discussion in the classroom
- There are talk rules (norms), Talk moves (skills) and talk goals (expected outcomes). 
- Start small - be explicit. 
- Speaking is essential for success in life, even more that reading, writing. 
- Teach stems - Sentence starters


Reflection: 
This is how I love to learn. I wish I had been able to learn more this way in my primary/secondary/tertiary education

Students are trying to come to a group conclusion (a really important feature in our Maori and Pasifica cultures), which sometimes may be black and white (9+4=13). Or sometimes it could be an open/opinion question and the kids can't come to one answer. So they could give a broader answer - "People have a range of views on this, and it's ok to disagree, but we all believe that..."

Action steps: 
What are your goals for this term?
- Plan a talk goal and a content goal in math strand lessons and evaluate beginning and end with students.
- Watch a video of teachers using these strategies and pick out 2 things that I can include in my own teaching.

Comments

  1. Michelle31 January 2020 at 14:34

    Kia ora Simon. It is so difficult to change our teaching habits that we default to isn't it. I will be really interested to see how you tautoko the work of the teachers whose classes you are sharing through developing your own dialogic practice.

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