Sam and I had our TLIF observation this week. My lesson was successful as the students managed to answer the big question after a dialogue on whether a tomato is a fruit or vegetable.
What I managed to do:
- Introduced Talanoa at the start of the lesson.
- Provide cue cards for student talk moves.
- Used wait time to give students the opportunity to share their thoughts.
- Used non-verbal cues to remind students to use Talanoa.
- Also asked students to respond in non-verbal ways (thumbs up or down) to determine their stand on a question.
What the students did:
- Some students spoke up by saying, " Can you say that a bit louder as I can't hear, please".
- More dialogue between students. The most interactions before I had to speak were between 3 students.
- Students used the talk moves a few times (but lots of room for improvement).
What next:
- Increase wait time even more.
- Extend dialogue by deepening their thinking. (Refer to page 91 of the Classroom Talk textbook).
- Use more pedagogy strategies so that students can practice talking to each other.
- Bump up the context to make room for deeper conversations.
Hi Alida, thanks for sharing the ways you are using to encourage student conversation and discussion. Could you explain what 'talanoa' is please. I would like to understand this concept better. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteHi Angela, Talanoa is our talk rules that we compiled for PeS. E.g. look and listen to the speaker etc. I can email you a copy if you’d like?
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