"Selected as an Outstanding Academic Title by Choice Magazine, January 2010 Classroom talk, by which children make sense of what their peers and teachers mean, is the most important educational tool for guiding the development of understanding and for jointly constructing knowledge. So what practical steps can teachers take to develop effective classroom interaction? Bringing together leading international researchers and drawing on t ..."
"Selected as an Outstanding Academic Title by Choice Magazine, January 2010 Classroom talk, by which children make sense of what their peers and teachers mean, is the most important educational tool for guiding the development of understanding and for jointly constructing knowledge. So what practical steps can teachers take to develop effective classroom interaction? Bringing together leading international researchers and drawing on t ..."
"Commenting on this, Karen Hume wrote: This speaks to the importance of a
round of whole-class and small group activity before attempting to work with
student questions. The common base that we had built [in this way] not only
provided us with a number of shared understandings and a language for
discussing them, but also primed the pump for new questions. ... Certainly, for this
class, in the course of listening to each other call o ..."