Volume 1, Edition 44 – Organizing Class Discussions with Talk Frames

Welcome to this week’s edition of Best Practices Weekly. Today we’ll be discussing best practices for organizing class discussions, especially in math.

Class discussions are a major part of most classrooms, but there can be a disconnect from the discussion to the individual response portion of the lesson. In an article for Teaching Children Mathematics, a teacher and a University of Connecticut professor discuss a tool for organizing class discussions, using a symmetry lesson as an example.

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