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Everyday I give my students time to talk. During connections! I feel this is a great way to have students voices heard but also work on speaking and listening skills through PVLEGS.

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Student teaching the class

Student showing their table partner how they set up a problem and where they got their solution

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I typically start class with an open ended writing bellringer. After sharing good news together, students have time to share out their bellringer daily and each student (ideally) shares.

I also teach in micro lectures (2-3 minutes) and then have students turn to a partner and reteach what I've just taught in their own words.

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In my class, student talk involves students asking me question through our notes or during the time they have to work on their homework. Sometimes, student talk also occurs when one student is helping another with the topic during homework or notes. At the beginning of the year, I was working towards the students working in groups and having a lot more discussions but ran into problems with the students not talking about the prompt or not talking at all, just agreeing with the "smart" student. I became very worried that my students weren't learning the material with this method and therefore, gave up too quickly. I would like to try it again but am worried.

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In the science classroom, student talk can look like sharing/discussing predictions or lab results. It can look like group members reading and interpreting a lab procedure and then discussing that procedure as a group. Student talk can involve the students presenting projects and becoming "experts".

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Today in my current events class I had students do small debates one vs one with a third student moderating/facilitating the discussion. It had mixed result but most groups had decent meaningful discussions for around 10-15 minutes without me doing anything except walking around.

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Students share methods for solving problems.

Students ask questions of each other and the teacher.

Students share things about their day or personal interests.

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- Discuss common misconceptions from our practice quizzes

- Present a problem on the board and have students analyze if the solution is correct or incorrect in groups.  Group must come to a consensus

- Have "teaching groups" where groups of students take one section within the unit to be responsible for. Spend a few days in class "researching" their topic. Then each group is assigned a day to teach one day. This will be our unit! Teaching each other!

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Students explaining to one another the process to figure out a math problem.

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In math class, students are able to talk to form conjectures and solve problems. I try not to talk to a lot and let the students work together to form ideas.

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Students sit in purposeful grouping and discuss warm-ups, assignments, and prompts with each other before sharing out with the whole class. Students complete group projects with assigned roles that encourage them to work together to problem-solve.

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If I Knew Then, What I Know Now: Teacher Talk vs. Student Talk