Here are 5 steps that will help to ensure that effective buddy talking is occurring in your classroom:
- Plan: Write questions ahead of time to ensure that they are higher level and build on one another.
- Pose: Have students sit knee to knee so they can see eye to eye. Also give students indicators of who's talking first.
- Wait: Students need 10-15 seconds, or more, to formulate an answer. During the wait time, repeat the question, as well as provide supporting quesitons and scaffolds where appropriate.
- Monitor & Feedback: The teacher should be listening to students as they are responding to check for understanding. This is also a time to identify students whose thinking will benefit the entire group.
- WRITE!: In the final steps, students should have an opportunity to solidify their understanding by piecing together their original thoughts with their new understanding from the turn and talk session through written expression.
Here is a clip of Turn and Talk in action.
NS632.GR12.Taubman.Reading.Turn and Talk from Uncommon Schools on Vimeo.
Here are some things to note from the video:
- Discussion is not about the obvious. Students are responding to a rigorous prompt.
- This discussion is not an ending point, but it is a starting point for their lesson. This discussion leads somewhere.
I will add more to supplement this topic of accountable talk in future posts.
~Chandra
Turn and Talk is crucial for all students to digest new information, to clarify misconceptions and questions with partners and especially for English Language Learners to listen and share ideas. Thanks for posting this!
ReplyDeleteThank you for adding how important this is for English Language Learners.
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