The workshop covered:
• Speaking and listening skills
• Planning for talk: establishing routines and expectations for student talk
• Vocabulary learning, research and ideas
• Practical ideas that promote student talk, including drama, and speaking and listening activities.
What I got from the course, my focus goals:
- Create a stronger Think, Pair, Share culture (teach good listening, what does it look like? Less hands up, )
- Think, pair, square,
- Students talking in full sentences, elaborating on ideas
- Introduce Barrier games
- Hi 5 Switch when sharing with a buddy
- Try doughnut sharing
- Would you rather ....OL and then writing
I have already tried a Barrier game which really got them thinking about their positional language and working with a partner.
