Dialogue

Where am I with developing dialogic teaching in my classroom? How well do I think I am at getting my students to do the "heavy" lifting of classroom talk? 
I have made a start with teaching dialogue last term. I am at the beginning stages of getting my students to do the heavy lifting.

PLD with Susan:
What stood out for me:
The order of introducing things - start with unpacking Talanoa, then Talk Moves and lastly Discussion Rules.
Be very explicit when teaching above mentioned. Make learning visible with posters, on tables, digital etc.
IRE is good for revision but we are moving away from it as we want to empower the students to take the lead in their learning. Talk moves help learning and has been proven in research as the best way to accelerate students learning.

Teach your students that when participating in talk activities, it is a safe zone, everybody is listened to and everybody's opinions count. Students should feel like they are heard and there is no right or wrong answer. When we ask questions, we are challenging the idea, not the person.

It is important to introduce your goal at the start or the lesson. Just state it. No need to get to the goal through questions.

To encourage everybody to participate, you could have talk chips (2), and you are only allowed to talk if you pay a chip. Or you have a sticky note with your name on, give yourself a tick when you participated. Teachers take these sticky notes in to make it valuable.

Another cool idea is that while early finishers are finished reading their text and waiting for the others to finish, they can write questions about the text on a whiteboard to ask the rest of the group when everybody is finished.

What are my goals for this term? 
Introducing Talanoa - teaching each aspect of it in short powerful lessons.
Focussing on easy strategies such as Think, Pair, Share.
Try and use as many of the interactive pedagogical strategies as possible to create opportunities