Research-informed tips for using dialogic teaching

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Use extended periods of talk between students to improve the quality of their responses in chemistry

Read how one former teacher and education researcher uses dialogic teaching and their evidence-informed tips for exploring and developing students’ thinking. They created lessons which contained extended periods of talk between 14–16 year-old learners as part of the school’s existing chemistry curriculum. For each lesson they asked the groups of students to respond to a question which required exploration of existing knowledge. Read example questions for various chemistry topics, including electrolysis, rates of reaction and ions, and how students sharing their own experiences created an environment where ideas flourished and matured, leading to improved responses.

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