A good session last week at the science conference was about productive science talk in the classroom. I think the strategies are relatable to the types of math conversations that we want to have. When you use activities like Would You Rather?, Estimation 180, Which One Doesn't Belong, and others you are developing a culture that includes differing answers and discourse. Students will need to listen to each other, rather than battle to be called on with the "correct" answer. A quality handout I picked up is called Talk Moves. The sentence/question starters are grouped into four goals that move from individual thinking to thinking with others (synergy!) These talk moves are a good reminder to me for including variety in discussion facilitation. Two that I am going to emphasize this week are asking students why they agree or disagree with another student's statement (7) and asking students share what another said in their own words (4). The handout is attached and available at this link for Google Drive: Talk Moves Cheers! Matt B. Hawkins Comments are closed.
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Matt HawkinsGull Lake Middle School Archives
March 2018
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