Hopes for Our Students as Talkers and Listeners and How to Get There
Release Date: 09/08/2021
Small But Powerful Moves for Facilitating Classroom Talk
Something To Talk About
What's a teacher facilitation move that seems small, but can have a powerful impact on classroom conversations? Featuring Lauren Carr, Matthew Kay, Dawnavyn James, and Caroline Sweet.
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How Can We Help Students (and Ourselves) Grow As Listeners?
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What are all the ways listening can look and sound like? And we're wondering how we can help students (and ourselves) keep growing as listeners. Featuring Christy Thompson, Caroline Sweet, Santasha Dhoot, Jennifer Orr and Allison Hintz.
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Power in Classroom Conversations and Beyond
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In today’s episode we’re talking with educators about power in classroom conversations and beyond. We’re reflecting on who holds power in classroom conversations, what that looks like, and how we can disrupt inequities we notice. And we’re thinking about how we can make our classroom conversations and communities places where students feel like their voices
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What's Hard About Facilitating Classroom Talk? (And How Are You Working At Getting Better?)
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What’s hard about classroom talk? And how are you working to get better? Find out what Jennifer Orr, Dawnavyn James, Lauren Carr, and Santasha Dhoot say on Episode 4 of the Something to Talk About mini podcast.
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Rethinking Participation in Classroom Conversations
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How might we rethink our ideas about participation in classroom conversations? With literacy coach Christy Thompson, first-grade teacher Lauren Carr, high school teacher Matthew Kay, and third-grade teacher Jennifer Orr
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What's the Best Piece of Advice You've Gotten About Classroom Conversations?
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Literacy coach Christy Thompson, high school teacher Matthew Kay, first grade teacher Santasha Dhoot and math education professors Elham Kazemi and Allison Hintz share the best piece of advice about classroom conversations they've gotten.
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Hopes for Our Students as Talkers and Listeners and How to Get There
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In Something to Talk About we ask just one juicy question about classroom discourse to a group of educators. In episode 1 Stenhouse’s Kassia Wedekind asks: What are some of your greatest hopes for your students as talkers and listeners? And what kind of practical routines will you set up at the beginning of the year to help build that community? Featuring Jennifer Orr, Allison Hintz, Elham Kazemi, and Tasha Dhoot.
info_outlineWelcome to the Something To Talk About, a podcast and blog series about all things classroom discourse! In each episode of the Something to Talk About mini podcast we ask just one juicy question about classroom discourse to a group of educators.
In Episode 1, Stenhouse editor and author, Kassia Wedekind asks:
What are some of your greatest hopes for your students as talkers and listeners? And what kind of practical routines will you set up at the beginning of the year to help build that community?
Take a listen to hear from third grade teacher, Jennifer Orr, first grade teacher, Santasha Dhoot, and authors of Intentional Talk, Elham Kazemi and Allison Hintz.
Meet the Educators in this Episode
Jennifer Orr has spent more than twenty years teaching and learning with elementary students from kindergarten through fifth grade. She currently teaches third graders at Fort Belvoir Upper School in Fairfax County, Virginia. She tweets @jenorr and blogs at jenorr.com.
Elham Kazemi is the co-author of Intentional Talk and the co-editor of Choral Counting and Counting Collections. She is a professor of mathematics education at the University of Washington. Elham works alongside teachers to create thriving mathematical classrooms centered on children’s mathematical thinking. She is deeply committed to building university-school partnerships that tackle social and academic inequities and create strong professional learning communities for teachers to learn from and with their students. Elham tweets @ekazemi.
Allison Hintz is the co-author Intentional Talk and the co-author of the upcoming Mathematizing Children’s Literature. She is an associate professor of mathematics education at the University of Washington, Bothell. She studies teaching and learning alongside educators to create experiences where children are heard, understood, and inspired as mathematical sense makers. Allison tweets @AllisonHintz124.
Santasha Dhoot (She/Her/Hers) is a Punjabi Sikh first-grade teacher in the Greater Seattle Area. She graduated from the University of Washington with a Masters in Teaching. She has a passion for educational justice and aspires to be a part of building an education system in which all students thrive. She loves learning alongside our youngest students and believes our future is bright because of them. You can follow Santasha on Twitter @tashadhoot.
Resources Mentioned in Episode 1
https://www.stenhouse.com/content/becoming-math-teacher-you-wish-youd-had
https://www.stenhouse.com/content/which-one-doesnt-belong
https://www.stenhouse.com/content/how-many
https://www.stenhouse.com/content/intentional-talk