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Strategies for limiting teacher talk and facilitating more student talk!
  • Provide multiple opportunities and contexts for practice
  • Include routines and learning contexts that encourage talk
  • Establish norms and guidelines
  •  Increase wait time
  • Provide time for reflection
  •  Encourage active listening
  • Ask and teach students to ask the kinds of questions that foster dialogue
  •  Organize the classroom to facilitate and encourage participation
  • Model and practice using Talk Moves
  • Encourage deeper more thought-provoking discussions
  • Own your talking and get to the point 
  • Set a timer 
  • Have students answer in a group vs. 1 student at a time 
  • Avoid the echo and  stop repeating everything students say  
  • Keep your questions open
  • Stop the unnecessary repetitions
  • Stop interrupting 
  • Encourage student talk. ​
By emphasizing the importance of students speaking up, asking questions, discussing and dissecting, we can create communities where all students are heard, where all voices are part of the learning.  
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