Goals for Conversation
This discourse goal often happens at the beginning of class with the whole class.
What is gathering student ideas on a science phenomenon?
Helps students understand off-the-wall comments.
What are Follow-Ups?
It is a way for students to feel safe to share in the classroom environment.
What are establishing student norms?
Tasks that focus on memorization
What are low cognitive demand questions?
A goal of discourse using Probing, Gentle follow-ups, wait time, Revoicing, opening up cross-talk
What tools can you use for activating prior knowledge?
This goal involves creating summary statements that involve making connections.
What is connecting activities with scientific ideas?
Paraphrasing and rebroadcasting student statements
What is revoicing?
What are sentence frames?
Tasks that don't ask students to do anything with ideas
What are low cognitive tasks?
A goal of discourse using Probing, Challenging follow-ups, Revoicing, Focusing
What tools can you use to make sense of observations or activities?
This goal involves looking at multiple activities and connecting them to a bigger phenomenon.
What is pressing students for evidence-based explanations?
Using questioning to encourage students to engage in peer-to-peer talk.
What is Cross-Talk?
In partners, students can either add to an idea or challenge it.
What is a scaffolded option for building on an idea?
Prompts that require students to do something with ideas
What are high cognitive demand questions?
A goal of discourse using Pressing, Challenging follow-ups, wait time, opening up cross-talk
What tools can you use to make connections to big science ideas or explainations?
This goal involves critically looking at data and observations.
What is helping students make sense of new observations, info, or data?
Asking for further reasoning about what a student has said.
What is Pressing?
Big ideas, Clarifier, Questioner, Skeptic, Progress manager, Floor manager
What are the possible roles for small group conversation?
Compare and contrast
Generate a list
Predict outcomes
What are Prompts that reflect high cognitive demand?