ariel nelson – education consultant anelson73@gmail.com 802.246.7387 north adams public schools

Ariel Nelson – Education Consultantanelson73@gmail.com802.246.7387

North Adams Public Schools

Introductions

Your experience, your expertise

Who has taken RETELL?

What was your experience?

What is one positive you took from RETELL?

How can SEI/RETELL benefit your students?

What are your concerns/frustrations?

Student talk vs. Teacher talk

How do you feel when you go to a class or a meeting and you are expected to just listen for an hour?

What’s your learning style?

Is teacher talk important?

Why do you think teachers talk a lot?

Which is true?According to a long term study conducted by the US Dept. of Ed in the 1960s, which of the following factors was found to be most closely related to success in reading at school:A) The reading program used at school.

B) The amount a child is read to in the home.

C) The number of books in the home—whether or not they are read.

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The data has been with us for a long time:

8th grade NAEP reading scores & parent education

Student talk vs. Teacher talk

“The argument is amply justified by research evidence -

psychological, neurological, pedagogical, linguistic - which shows

that talk of a genuinely dialogic kind is indispensable to the

development of thinking and understanding (Alexander, 2005).”

Student talk vs. Teacher talk

Teacher: I was thinking about the life cycle of an insect. Do you remember the life cycle we studied? Malik?

Malik: Yes.Teacher: What was the first stage in the life cycle? Jesse?

Jesse: They was born?

Teacher: Yes, things are born, but think about the life cycle of insects. Let's try to be more specific in our thinking. What is the first stage in the insect life cycle? Miriam?

Miriam: Eggs.

Teacher: Yes, insects start as eggs. Then they change and develop. They become larva after eggs, right? And then what? What happens to them after they are larva? Adrian?

Adrian: They are adults.

Teacher: They do eventually become adults, but there is a step missing. What is the step between larva and adults? What is that stage of the life cycle called? Joe?

Joe: Mature larva?

Teacher: Yes, there are two kinds of larva in the life cycle of some insects. But what I was thinking about was what happened to them after the larva before they become adults. Mariah?

Mariah: Nymph?

Teacher: Now we're talking about the three-stage cycle for some insects. Do the insects that change into nymphs come from larva? Let's look at our two posters again. Remember these? There is a three-stage process and a four-stage process. Let's study these again.

Student talk vs. Teacher talk

“If we count the number of words used, minus the student names, the teacher used 190 words, whereas the students used 11. This means that 94 percent of the words used in the classroom during this five-minute segment were spoken by the teacher. In addition, if we analyze the types of words used, half of the words spoken by the students were not academic in nature. That's not so great. Students need more time to talk, and this structure of asking them to do so one at a time will not significantly change the balance of talk in the classroom.”

Student talk vs. Teacher talk

“Tell me and I’ll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I’ll understand.” – Chinese proverb

In the average classroom, TT is 70% while student talk is 30% of the time. (spread out over all of the students)

Do you agree?

Which students are talking?

What language are they using?

Build awareness: Videotape a couple of classes.

Student talk

What are the benefits of increasing student talk?

•Checking for comprehension

•Clarification

•Increased student engagement

•Develop Thinking

•Deeper learning for all students

•Builds a foundation for literacy

•Save your voice and energy

•Vocabulary practice/building

Strategies to increase student talk

What are you already doing to get students talking?

Strategies to increase student talk

Increase wait time

Provide academic language for students’ use

Anchor charts

Word walls

Sentence starter/frames

Let students answer other students’ questions

Pair work/group work – provide roles and accountability structures (timed, written answer, A talks and B reports out, etc)

Ask open ended questions instead of yes/no questions

Students teach students

Anchor Charts

Anchor Charts

Anchor Charts

Word Walls

Word Walls

Word Walls

Word Walls

Word Walls

Word Walls

Exit Ticket

What new strategies will you implement right away?

What other actions will you take?

What questions/concerns do you still have?

Thank you for your attention and participation!

Ariel Nelson – Education Consultant

anelson73@gmail.com

802.246.7387