Classroom Oracy in Action
Deepen your teaching practice by cultivating purposeful classroom talk with oracy strategies and digital tools.
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How it works
Classroom Oracy in Action
Boost your teaching skills with McGraw Hill
Take your understanding of classroom talk to the next level with this three-week course from McGraw Hill. Following on from An Introduction to Oracy in the Classroom, this course will help enhance your teaching skills and give you practical insights for effectively integrating oracy in educational contexts.
Throughout the course, you’ll analyse real-world classroom scenarios to ensure you build practical strategies to implement oracy. You’ll also draw on teachers’ perspectives, gain expert advice, and delve into current research to help you master best practices.
Learn how to move towards dialogic teaching
You’ll start by understanding how to establish a dialogic culture in your classroom to create purposeful discussions that engage all students.
Learning how to switch between dialogic and authoritative communication modes to meet diverse classroom needs, you’ll be able to promote authentic pupil voices to build confidence and participation.
Understand how to harness digital technology in your classroom
Next, you’ll learn how to use digital technology as a stimulus for meaningful classroom talk, fostering engagement and creativity.
You’ll develop skills to create ‘dialogic spaces’ and build pupils’ metacognitive awareness using technology, enabling richer discussion and collaborative learning.
Promote your ideas to help shape the school culture
Finally, you’ll learn to create a school culture that values and promotes high-quality talk. You’ll build an understanding of oracy practices among staff and pupils to encourage consistency and collective growth.
You’ll also understand how to use a three-part model to ensure a structured, school-wide approach.
Syllabus
Week 1
Towards a dialogic classroom
Creating a dialogic culture
Week 1 covers the concept of ‘dialogic culture,’ strategies for fostering productive dialogue in the classroom, and an evaluation of how dialogic your classroom is.
Purposeful dialogic talk
Understand how peer dialogic talk can be made purposeful, inclusive, and accountable.
Communicative approaches
Explore the dialogic teacher’s role in making skilled, responsive shifts between communicative approaches while maintaining an overall dialogic stance using Eduardo Mortimer and Philip Scott’s influential analytical framework.
Authentic voices
Evaluate to what extent your students have opportunities for an authentic voice.
Wrap Up
A brief summary of the concepts covered in Week 6 is discussed.
Week 2
Talking with digital technology
Introduction
An outline of the topics that will be covered in Week 2 is discussed. Understand how digital technology can act as a stimulus for learning within the classroom.
Using digital technology to create dialogic space
Learn the role of digital technology in problem solving and teamwork within a classroom; evaluate a four-year study on the use of microblogging and its relation to dialogue.
Using digital technology to create metacognitive awareness of talk
Understand how audio and video recordings can create metacognitive awareness of student learning.
Wrap Up
A brief summary of the concepts covered in Week 7 is discussed.
Week 3
Getting started with classroom talk across the school
A school-wide vision
An outline of the topics that will be covered in Week 8 is discussed. Understand the Oracy APPG report’s recommendations for considering whole-school implementation of talk-related strategies.
Giving talk high status
Evaluate the role of various stakeholders — school leaders, families, students, and teachers — to create a culture across a school community that values talk.
Developing a shared understanding
Understand the importance of maintaining teacher ownership and a degree of autonomy, along with supporting teachers with an oracy to develop a shared understanding of talk across schools.
Ensuring progression in talk
Understand how to assess student talk and ensure progression in talk through the school and the importance of this assessment.
Wrap Up - Planning for Talk
A brief summary of the concepts covered in Week 8 is discussed with respect to the three key categories of talk: purpose, form, and participation.
When would you like to start?
Start straight away and join a global classroom of learners. If the course hasn’t started yet you’ll see the future date listed below.
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Learning on this course
On every step of the course you can meet other learners, share your ideas and join in with active discussions in the comments.
What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...
- 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.
Who is the course for?
This course is designed for anyone interested in using oracy in educational settings.
Whether you’re a recent graduate considering teaching or you’re an experienced educator looking to expand your knowledge, you’ll learn how purposeful classroom talk contributes to both personal and academic development.
Who will you learn with?
Dr Rupert Knight was a teacher in schools in London and Nottingham. He currently works at the University of Nottingham and continues to collaborate with local schools on oracy projects.
Who developed the course?
McGraw Hill
With over 130 years’ experience, we continue to evolve as a global education pioneer within the sector, transforming from a print-centric producer of content to a leader in digital resources and adaptive learning solutions.
The University of Nottingham
The University of Nottingham is committed to providing a truly international education, inspiring students with world-leading research and benefitting communities all around the world.
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- Access to 1,000+ courses
- Learn at your own pace
- Discuss your learning in comments
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$54/one-off payment
Fulfill your current learning need
- Access to this course
- Learn at your own pace
- Discuss your learning in comments
- Printed and digital certificate when you’re eligible
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Sample the course materials
- Access expires 25 Dec 2024
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