Something I’ve done with adults and teens is “greeting card” combined with “gallery”. Exactly. I’m a Customer Experience Manager with Cult of Pedagogy. I’m also a huge fan of Liberating Structures, a set of 33 ‘structures’ or discussion processes that “engage and unleash” everyone. The Writing Center Campus Box #5135 0127 SASB North 450 Ridge Road Chapel Hill, NC 27599 (919) 962-7710 writing_center@unc.edu What if you have an odd number of students?? To watch each strategy in action, click on its name and a new window will open with a video that demonstrates it. If you cannot revert the move for technical reasons, then you may My juniors held focused, academic conversations lasting 15-25 minutes with nobody of task, and no input from me. I hope you go back into the earlier episodes and keep listening! I would add Flipgrid, Yo Teach!, Parlay, and possibly Kialo to the list. Love this list! From there, students continue the conversation, prompting one another to support their claims with textual evidence. | current2 = Current title of page 2 Not a lot applies to the virtual classroom in science. We can use it in the EFL and ESL classroom for Language learning to encourage classroom speaking. Before I knew the term Gallery Walk, I shared a strategy similar to it called Chat Stations, where the teacher prepares discussion prompts or content-related tasks and sets them up around the room for students to visit in small groups. Mostly in these startegies where children share their thoughts with each other they record their thoughts by writing…. Nice list, Jennifer. Completely changed how I use conversations in class. Jennifer You are creating a new zone of teacher education. I like to use a strategy called ‘silent conversation.’ I write a question or quote on a piece of chart paper and put one at each table. There is a book you can purchase, but there are also many resources on the web. I’m happy to look into their sources if I know which ones you’re thinking of. “The value in White Fragility lies in its methodical, irrefutable exposure of racism in thought and action, and its call for humility and vigilance.” —The New Yorker “[T]houghtful, instructive, and comprehensive . New pedagogy is not better pedagogy. Thank you for this! Say 13. Great list! One person from each group (the “speaker”) sits in a desk facing speakers from the other groups, so they form a square in the center of the room. Next, groups of four join together to form groups of eight, and so on, until the whole class is joined up in one large discussion. Replace NewName with the requested new name of the page (or with a simple question mark, if you want more than one possible new name to be considered). Hi Jennifer, A number of teachers at our school use SPIDER Web discussion. There is no technical limit on the number of multiple move requests, but before requesting very large multi-moves, consider whether a naming convention should be changed first. Lynda Tredway is familiar with the strategy. There are a lot of ideas to try to get kids engaged. There’s no wait time – all students are responding simultaneously. It’s very beneficial to get fresh ideas on a variety of ways to open up discussion in the classroom. I just found this: http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/182046/podcast-app-not-downloading-episodes-to-iphone Next, the teacher says Teach!, the class responds with Okay!, and pairs of students take turns re-teaching the concept to each other. In this way, every student’s voice is ‘heard,’ no one dominates the discussion, I can see who needs support and who really gets it, and every student is engaged. Then, student A would go up to student B and ask them on whatever is on their card. The first batch contains the higher-prep strategies, formats that require teachers to do some planning or gathering of materials ahead of time. I have used a few like conversations, pairing and sharing, but look forward to using the others! As anticipated there were questions that were completed, so having extra questions prepared was critical to the continuity of the work. I thought you had taken a break since April! How could we possibly think like college students when we’re just lowly, Pubblically empoloyed . As someone who also does research and development, I would encourage you to acknowledge the hard work of others by citing your sources. In fact, many of these protocols could be used for peer teaching as well. Teachers may also opt to have students in the outside circle grade the participants’ conversation with a rubric, then give feedback on what they saw in a debriefing afterward, as mentioned in the featured video. Thank you! We are so glad that you are finding value in Cult of Pedagogy. I stick to study questions and random calling to try to avoid shallowness but spread out participation beyond the usual suspects. There’s so much value in students being able to watch one another problem-solve. Great list. Each station started off with two students and they were assigned as “A” group or “B” group. A couple people here mentioned online courses. It has helped my ELLs develop critical thinking skills and strengthen their communication skills. Add additional related move requests in pairs (|current3= and |new3=, |current4= and |new4=, etc.). | new1 = New title for page 1 with the talk page hosting this discussion Does that help? If you are here because you want an admin to approve of your new article or your proposed page move, you are in the wrong place. I think a lot of these ideas would translate well, but am wondering if you had any suggestions on ways to adapt these activities, or things I should watch out for in general? One of the strategies that I thought could be really interesting was to have Conver-Stations in a Math class where students could be in groups of 4-6 and, perhaps as a chapter review, each student could be assigned a different but related problem form that chapter. These are terrific and I also really enjoy the comments thread. Agree with Harkness and Spider Web Discussions. When an editor offers an argument that does not explain how the move request is consistent with policies and guidelines, a reminder to engage in constructive, on-topic discussion may be useful. Thanks for sharing. For requested mergers, see, For detailed guidance on how and when to move a page, see, A request that this page title be changed is. If you use a discussion strategy that’s not mentioned here, please share it below. The problem wasn’t them; in most of the classrooms where they’d sat as students, that’s exactly what a class discussion looked like. Wikipedia:Requested moves → ? What happens in between the teacher teaching and the student teaching? Do not create a new move request when one is already open on the same talk page. I’m an instructional designer working in corporate training, and the majority of my participants are adult learners (a lot of them are 20-30 years old, close to college years). Hi Please read the article titling policy and the guideline regarding primary topics before moving a page or requesting a page move. A nominator making a procedural nomination with which they may not agree is free to add a bulleted line explaining their actual position. Hi, Rolando! This is awesome! Thank you for the wonderful list of strategies! Rob Do not make conflicting recommendations. Talk moves can be incorporated into any of the other discussion formats listed here. http://uobrep.openrepository.com/uobrep/bitstream/10547/335887/1/Harkness+Learning+-+Principles+of+a+Real+American+Pedagogy.pdf. Thanks for sharing, Amy! Thanks for sharing Alexis Wiggin’s Spider Web discussion model. – why Example (talk) 18:51, 06 April 2021 (UTC). There are plenty of resources for it on the web. Oh no!! Teaching in a Harkness school more than ten years ago led me to develop Spider Web Discussion, and I still am amazed by its power to transform kids into learning leaders. I enjoyed this post and will “steal” some ideas. On the other hand, I think the snowball discussion, affinity mapping and gallery walk are great things we can (and do) use, I just didn’t have a name for them. Talk moves can be incorporated into any of the other discussion formats listed here. Another student said that she would have liked an opportunity to work with students who were in her same group. It was a little tough to make sure the students transitioned smoothly from one station to the next, but they did have engaging conversations and a variety of kids were able to take leadership roles. Love, love, love it. Inevitably, the volume of Turn and Talk would increase to a point beyond tolerable by administrators and next door neighbors. You’ll want to model this — while modeling, be sure to do a think aloud, talking about how your idea matches your drawing; talk about how you can even add a label with 1st letter or a word(s), as well as use arrows and speech bubbles — these options are a way to differentiate. So now the student who had arrived at that station in the first rotation was left to explain to the new arrival. Here’s a link for anyone wanting to learn more: http://www.wechat.com/. 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