Conditions for Rigorous Discourse by

Students building on one another's ideas

2024-11-03 15:18:04 UTC

Teacher as facilitator and guide

2024-11-03 15:18:16 UTC

Expectations for student engagement and listening

2024-11-03 15:18:30 UTC

Monologic

kathleenmcthomas — 2024-11-03 21:06:18 UTC

command of the class and their attention as answers are specific.
an expectation of a range of answers that are anticipated
a resource for students to draw from
a limited amount of time because command of their attention and expectations for responses must be appropriate for the age. I can't imagine it being more than 10 minutes.

Dialogic

kathleenmcthomas — 2024-11-03 21:08:24 UTC

A strong grasp of the directions in which the topics can go depending on the questions asked.
The ability to redirect and facilitate a conversation that goes off the rails or a tangent that isn't productive.
Modeled discussion so students have an understanding of how they are expected to take turns speaking, respond to each other, and otherwise engage.

ftravers — 2024-11-04 01:50:16 UTC

Students engaged in the conversation.

2024-11-04 23:04:48 UTC

Have students use sentence stems when talking with each other like "I agree" or "I disagree"

2024-11-04 23:06:13 UTC

Teachers should generate questions that help students delve deeper into texts.

2024-11-05 20:47:31 UTC

Teacher can use sentence stem cards when ideas or conversation is lost

2024-11-05 20:50:52 UTC

Students speaking or writing as the discourse can be done both ways.

2024-11-06 23:11:03 UTC

Teacher or students can provide questions using 'how' or 'why' in order to encourage more discussion and thinking about the text.

2024-11-06 23:13:21 UTC

Providing time for students to think about the questions and generate their initial answers and thoughts before the discussion will help students who need more processing time to be able to participate.

2024-11-06 23:14:04 UTC

Instruction in how to respectfully disagree with someone's answer.

students making connections with each others' ideas

2024-11-07 04:59:55 UTC

engaging in the students interests

2024-11-08 01:11:05 UTC

generate guided discussions between students

2024-11-08 01:12:17 UTC

Set expectations for what you want students to talk about or include when discussing a topic.

2024-11-08 02:02:51 UTC

Discourse menu with sentence frames to provide all students with access to the discussion. Explicitly teach how to use those frames, remove the scaffold when students are independent, and teach students who do not initially need the frames to "opt out" and continue on without.

2024-11-08 10:53:38 UTC

bncorb2 — 2024-11-09 14:50:50 UTC

Expectation and guidelines for appropriate conversation that is respectful, purposeful and productive

Sense of Community in the classroom for student comfortability to share

bncorb2 — 2024-11-09 14:51:10 UTC

teacher is facilitating, or managing rather than giving too much explicit information or not allowing for any discovery and discussion

2024-11-11 01:25:21 UTC

Rich Discourse Musts

2024-11-15 16:08:20 UTC

-high expectations

-group norms

-shared responsibility

-student ownership

-high level questions

-rich, complex text