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Why Feedback?

Effective feedback is a high-leverage strategy that has a major impact on student achievement.

What Really Matters?

Lucy West shares techniques that improve achievement and enable students who are struggling to contribute confidently to classroom dialogue.

Questioning

Lucy West presents statistics that emphasize the importance of questioning that fosters accountable talk in the classroom.

Types of Talk

Five types of talk exist – rote, recitation, instruction, discussion and dialogue. Discussion and dialogue are most effective and least evident in classrooms.

Talk, Task, Feedback

Oracy development and the importance of cognition as an outcome of discourse are two of the factors that contribute to the successful interconnection of talk, task and feedback.

Collaboration

Lucy West talks about the role of collaboration in establishing professional practice within the educational environment.

Student Voice

Lucy West outlines how teachers can foster student voice by encouraging them to articulate their reasoning and by valuing their ideas in the classroom.

Culture of Classroom Discourse

What factors are evident in a culture of classroom discourse? How would one promote accountable talk, listening and collaboration?

Barriers to Talk

What are the barriers to meaningful talk in the classroom?

Making Meaning

The goal of teaching is not to cover the curriculum but rather to uncover the possibilities for meaningful learning.

Descriptive Feedback: Principal to Teacher

How do you engage people in a learning process rather than a performance process at all levels of the system?

Moving the Learning Forward

The capacity to have discourse that is focused on the instructional core is essential for any learning organization.

Becoming a Learning Organization

To become a learning organization, all members must become public learners. Bridges must be built between territories, districts and schools connecting everyone to the same instructional core.

Talk into Action

Educators need strategies to turn talk into action that results in improved student learning.

The Role of the Principal

The principal is a lead learner who fosters meaningful partnerships within the school.

Creating a Learning Organization

To become a learning organization, all members must become public learners. Bridges must be built between territories, districts and schools connecting everyone to the same instructional core.

Envisioning the Future

Although the specifics of the future are unknown, educators need to envision the needs of 21st-century learners when designing curriculum.

Effective Practice

Content needs to revolve around big ideas or essential understandings. A well-designed lesson offers opportunities for differentiation.