Academic Conversations: Classroom Talk that Fosters Critical Thinking and Content Understandings / Edition 1

Academic Conversations: Classroom Talk that Fosters Critical Thinking and Content Understandings / Edition 1

ISBN-10:
157110884X
ISBN-13:
9781571108845
Pub. Date:
11/04/2011
Publisher:
Stenhouse Publishers
ISBN-10:
157110884X
ISBN-13:
9781571108845
Pub. Date:
11/04/2011
Publisher:
Stenhouse Publishers
Academic Conversations: Classroom Talk that Fosters Critical Thinking and Content Understandings / Edition 1

Academic Conversations: Classroom Talk that Fosters Critical Thinking and Content Understandings / Edition 1

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Overview

Conversing with others has given insights to different perspectives, helped build ideas, and solve problems. Academic conversations push students to think and learn in lasting ways. Academic conversations are back-and-forth dialogues in which students focus on a topic and explore it by building, challenging, and negotiating relevant ideas. In Academic Conversations: Classroom Talk that Fosters Critical Thinking and Content Understandings authors Jeff Zwiers and Marie Crawford address the challenges teachers face when trying to bring thoughtful, respectful, and focused conversations into the classroom. They identify five core communications skills needed to help students hold productive academic conversation across content areas: Elaborating and Clarifying Supporting Ideas with Evidence Building On and/or Challenging Ideas Paraphrasing Synthesizing This book shows teachers how to weave the cultivation of academic conversation skills and conversations into current teaching approaches. More specifically, it describes how to use conversations to build the following: Academic vocabulary and grammar Critical thinking skills such as persuasion, interpretation, consideration of multiple perspectives, evaluation, and application Literacy skills such as questioning, predicting, connecting to prior knowledge, and summarizing An academic classroom environment brimming with respect for others' ideas, equity of voice, engagement, and mutual support The ideas in this book stem from many hours of classroom practice, research, and video analysis across grade levels and content areas. Readers will find numerous practical activities for working on each conversation skill, crafting conversation-worthy tasks, and using conversations to teach and assess. Academic Conversations offers an in-depth approach to helping students develop into the future parents, teachers, and leaders who will collaborate to build a better world.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781571108845
Publisher: Stenhouse Publishers
Publication date: 11/04/2011
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 240
Sales rank: 136,648
Product dimensions: 7.40(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Jeff Zwiers, Ed.D., is a senior researcher at the Stanford Graduate School of Education. He has taught in diverse elementary and secondary schools and has worked as an instructional coach in urban school settings. His current research and professional development work consist of collaborating with teachers to learn what works best in real classrooms to help students learn through rich interactions and conversations.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vi

Introduction 1

Chapter 1 Reasons to Converse in School 7

Chapter 2 Getting Started with Academic Conversations 27

Chapter 3 Lesson Activities for Developing Core Conversation Skills 45

Chapter 4 Designing Effective Conversation Tasks 59

Chapter 5 Training Students for Advanced Conversations 73

Chapter 6 Developing Academic Grammar and Vocabulary Through Conversation 91

Chapter 7 Conversations in Language Arts 109

Chapter 8 Conversations in History 141

Chapter 9 Conversations in Science 165

Chapter 10 Academic Conversation Assessment 185

Chapter 11 Reminders 209

Appendix 211

References 217

Index 225

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