Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
McGraw Hill and The University of Nottingham
This course gave practical insights for integrating oracy in education and enabled learners to build practical strategies to establish dialogic teaching in the classroom. It gave an understanding of how to use technology as a stimulus for meaningful talk and to promote a school-wide approach.
3 weeks, 2 hours per week
Dr Rupert Knight
Associate Professor in Education, University of Nottingham
McGraw Hill
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Explore how to establish a dialogic culture in a classroom.
- Apply features of dialogic teaching into your practice.
- Explore how to switch between dialogic and authoritative modes of communication.
- Evaluate ways of promoting students’ authentic voices.
- Explore how to use digital technology as a stimulus for talk.
- Create ‘dialogic space’ using digital technology.
- Develop pupils’ metacognitive awareness of talk using digital technology.
- Create a culture across a school community that values talk.
- Explore how to build a common understanding of talk across a school.
- Evaluate progress in children’s talk.
- Explore how to plan for talk using a three-part model.
Syllabus
- Week 1: Towards a dialogic classroom — developing dialogic classroom cultures and practices
- Week 2: Talking using digital technology — the potential of digital technology to support classroom talk
- Week 3: Getting started with classroom talk across the school — how to begin to implement the ideas from this course at school and classroom level
Issued on 4th June 2026
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