Learning Talk 1 : build understandings

Description

Learning talk: build understandings

A landmark publication from internationally acclaimed educator Joan Dalton The first in a ground breaking series on Learning Talk, this Book shows you how to use

• practical, step by step strategies
• leading-edge professional learning material
• concrete examples and tools to build collective understanding and commitment to Learning Talk for the collaborative, learning-focused world in which we live.

Develop your own and others’ skills in Learning Talk with this comprehensive series, to be progressively released during 2010:

• Introduce Learning Talk: build understandings
• Build the culture for learning talk
• Assess existing skills: build a plan
• Develop foundational skills
• Develop more complex capabilities
• Practise the skills: embed the learning
• Use feedback effectively

“Conversation is your core technology for improving and transforming learning.” “All educators need to know how to skillfully navigate important, learning focused conversations. If you can’t have the conversations, nothing changes.”