Workshop day: ACS Hillingdon Middle School, 7 January 2014

Talking in Class: Increasing the Quality and Quantity of Student Dialogue in the Classroom 

ACS Hillingdon Middle School Teachers...

Welcome!  After you are comfortably settled, please visit the Talking in Class website and click to complete this pre-workshop survey.  We will begin shortly!


Two-Hour Workshop Overview

  1. Introductions: Brianna, Jake, and the research
  2. Talking in Class: the iBook
  3. 5 Core Skills for Academic Conversation
  4. Planning and Application
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workshop
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five core skills for 
academic conversation

  1. Elaborate and Clarify
  2. Support Ideas with Examples
  3. Build on or Challenge a Partner's Idea
  4. Paraphrase
  5. Synthesize
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From Talking in Class: Increasing the Quality and Quantity of Student-to-Student Dialogue in the Classroom (2013)

Planning and Application

  1. Seven Features of Effective Conversation
  2. Collaborative thinking
  3. Q & A
  4. Post-workshop survey
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From Academic Conversations: Classroom Talk that Fosters Critical Thinking and Understanding (2011)