Encouraging Academic Conversations With Talk Moves

Sentence starters that students use to join a class discussion encourage both academic thinking and social connectedness.

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[mjwpxnm]

"Everything about activating a child's cognitive skills begins with activating their social connectedness."

[gayleneparisien]

In small groups, all students must be accountable for something.

[goswamisirtalks]

Thank You Edutopia Team, for bringing up these good chunks of information. When I still watching your video, I came up with Lots of Ideas that can be included in sessions

[stevewhite]

Giving children the opportunity to talk.

[kellyliu]

Hello Edutopia,
I really enjoy this idea of inviting students to talk and I think it would be very beneficial to set a classroom up with this “brave space” to speak. Some students are uncomfortable with speaking up and asking questions because they do not want to show other students they do not understand the content. I have students like this now, I would go over to help my students individually and they would refuse my help even though they clearly do not understand what it going on. I think part of it is that they don’t know where to start asking too. I think taping the talk moves to the table is a great way to get them to start having productive conversations in class. How do you see this implemented in a mathematics classroom?

[grahampcharles]

Can you provide a link to a list of what the “talk moves” actually look like?

[salihabelhacene]

Very interesting tips to be applied in discussions.

[charmaineprice]

can you provide a copy of the taped stems