Class TalkOn average, teachers talk for two-thirds of class time in a monologue style quite different to that which most children experience at home. This book helps teachers to understand their students' difficulties in stepping out of 'home talk' into 'class talk'. Class Talk: looks at teacher-student communication and reflects on what is happening in the classroom looks at how students talk in different classroom situations and evaluates this information in terms of planning children's learning considers the problems of transmitting meaning to others discusses and reflects on practical strategies to improve the quality of talking, teaching and learning |ooks at how a teacher's most important tool 'the voice' is used, along with facial expression and gesture, to make the greatest impact on students considers the development of talk within a society that has moved away from mechanical and manufacturing industry towards jobs in service industries, which entail, on average, 80% speaking and listening and only 20% reading and writing. |
Contents
Introduction | 7 |
Chapter 2 | 30 |
Chapter 4 | 46 |
Chapter 5 | 54 |
Chapter 6 | 121 |
Appendix 1 | 151 |
Puzzle answer | 161 |
Appendix 4 | 185 |
Appendix 6 | 191 |
Appendix 8 | 213 |
References | 219 |
Other titles from | 234 |
Common terms and phrases
ability achieve activities aware bean bag behaviour body brain breathing Broca's area cerebellum cerebral hemisphere cerebrum Chapter clarity class talk classroom COGS communication context conversation cooking cortex discourse discussion dominant Education effective emotion encourage example experience explain feel finite verb frontal lobe functions gestures give goal hand hemisphere ideas images important interactions involved ISBN language learners learning lesson limbic system listen lobe look meaning movements muscles nerve neurones non-verbal Non-verbal communication nouns object occipital lobes organised pairs Paralanguage participants person play positive posture problems proprioception questions reading relaxed responses role sensory sentence situations skills 10 maximum someone sound speaker speaking speech spoken Stephen Bowkett strategies structure style suggested task teachers and students TEACHING TIP television thinking understanding University of Leicester verbal vestibular system visual voice Wernicke's area words writing written
References to this book
The Handbook of Social Emotional, and Behavioural Difficulties Morag Hunter-Carsch No preview available - 2006 |