Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
An Introduction to Oracy in the Classroom
McGraw Hill and The University of Nottingham
This course provided foundational concepts in classroom talk and prepared learners to make informed choices on integrating oracy. It explained the value of oracy in fostering student engagement and identified motivations and challenges. Examples highlighted contexts where classroom talk can thrive.
5 weeks, 2 hours per week
Dr Rupert Knight
Associate Professor in Education, University of Nottingham
McGraw Hill
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Explain different arguments for a focus on classroom talk.
- Explore lessons involving talk from different perspectives.
- Evaluate the concept of oracy in relation to talk more broadly.
- Reflect on a variety of questions about talk practices.
- Identify some typologies of talk to analyse talk experienced in classrooms.
- Reflect on motivations and challenges involved in a focus on classroom talk.
- Identify a wide range of contexts and opportunities for talk.
- Explore how to scaffold pupils’ talk in a variety of ways.
- Assess the value of a wide range of talk registers.
- Create the conditions for productive whole-class talk.
- Develop pupil participation in whole-class talk.
- Explore how to work with pupils’ responses to maximise learning.
- Explain how to use talk to support pupils’ writing.
- Identify exploratory talk.
- Create the conditions for productive peer-peer talk.
- Identify your role as the teacher to facilitate peer talk.
Syllabus
- Week 1: Making the case for classroom talk — the different justifications (personal, cognitive and societal) for a focus on talk
- Week 2: Classroom talk in practice — how strategies for talk might be implemented in classrooms and some of the related issues
- Week 3: Learning to talk and about talk — developing the knowledge and skills underpinning the use of spoken language
- Week 4: Talking as a whole class — principles and strategies for productive talk between teachers and students as a whole class
- Week 5: Talking with peers — principles and strategies for productive talk between peers
Issued on 24th May 2026
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