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9781571108845

Academic Conversations : Classroom Talk That Fosters Critical Thinking and Content Understandings

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  • ISBN13:

    9781571108845

  • ISBN10:

    157110884X

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2011-09-23
  • Publisher: Stenhouse Pub

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Summary

Where would we be without conversation? Throughout history, conversations have allowed us to see different perspectives, build ideas, and solve problems. Conversations, particularly those referred to in this book as 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. Unfortunately, academic conversations are rare in many classrooms. Talk is often dominated by the teacher and a few students, or it does not advance beyond short responses to the teacher's questions. Even certain teaching approaches and curriculum programs neglect to train students how to maintain a focused, respectful, and thoughtful conversation. To address these challenges, authors Jeff Zwiers and Marie Crawford have identified five core communication skills to help students hold productive academic conversations across content areas. These skills include: elaborating and clarifying, supporting ideas with evidence, building on and/or challenging ideas, paraphrasing, and 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 Complex and abstract essential understandings in content areas such as adaptation, human nature, bias, conservation of mass, energy, gravity, irony, democracy, greed, and more 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 Conversationsoffers an in-depth approach to helping students develop into the future parents, teachers, and leaders who will collaborate to build a better world.

Author Biography

Jeff Zwiers, Ed.D., teaches in the Stanford Teacher Education Program and works in Stanfords Center to Support Excellence in Teaching. He has been a teacher, mentor, and teacher educator in linguistically diverse settings for more than fifteen years. He consults both nationally and internationally and has published articles and books on literacy, cognition, and academic language. Marie Crawford, M.A., is an assistant principal at Central Middle School in the San Carlos School District. She has been a mentor teacher for urban teachers, a classroom teacher in urban schools, and a museum educator.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgmentsp. vi
Introductionp. 1
Reasons to Converse in Schoolp. 7
Getting Started with Academic Conversationsp. 27
Lesson Activities for Developing Core Conversation Skillsp. 45
Designing Effective Conversation Tasksp. 59
Training Students for Advanced Conversationsp. 73
Developing Academic Grammar and Vocabulary Through Conversationp. 91
Conversations in Language Artsp. 109
Conversations in Historyp. 141
Conversations in Sciencep. 165
Academic Conversation Assessmentp. 185
Remindersp. 209
Appendixp. 211
Referencesp. 217
Indexp. 225
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