Encouraging reception students to share ideas and agree/disagree with their peers providing reasons
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| Description: | This clip shows a teacher of a reception class in a final lesson after a teachers development programme with T-SEDA. The lesson's task was for the students to discuss whether aliens exist. After a short talk with their peers, the students share their ideas with the whole group. The students say when they agree or disagree and provide reasons to their opinions. |
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| Created: | 2020-05-08 19:29 |
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| Collection: | CEDiR group examples of dialogue in diverse educational contexts |
| Publisher: | University of Cambridge |
| Copyright: | The T-SEDA team, led by Sara Hennessy & Ruth Kershner |
| Language: | eng (English) |
| Keywords: | dialogue; reasoning; agreements; disagreements; reception class (4-5 years); |
| Abstract: | The video was taken in the final lesson following the teacher's participation in a professional development programme with T-SEDA (Teacher Scheme for Educational Dialogue Analysis).
The initial lesson, prior to the teacher's participation in the T-SEDA professional development programme, can be accessed on the following link: https://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/3099149 This clip comes from a reception class (4-5 year olds) in England. The teacher asks the students if they think aliens are real. The students discuss their ideas in small groups and then share some of their ideas with the whole class. The teacher has previously encouraged the students to share, listen, and explicitly agree or disagree with one another in similar discussions. In comparison to the initial segment (link above) in which students barely express agreement/disagreement, even when encouraged to do so, in this final segment they engage with their peers' ideas by often agreeing or disagreeing with one another. Along with this, the instances of the teacher guiding dialogue were more frequent in the initial segment, with the teacher giving several reminders of ground rules of communication. In comparison, in this final segment, students readily followed the by now established ground rules in the discussion, and thus teacher guidance was substantially reduced. Characteristics of dialogue in this clip: - Teacher invites to agree or disagree - Teacher invites to build on - Teacher summarises students’ contributions - Teacher invites to provide explanations using “why” follow-up questions - Students agree/disagree with each other giving reasons - The teacher will use the think-pair-share strategy next This footage was collected during the T-SEDA (Teacher Scheme for Educational Dialogue Analysis) impact trial funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council (Impact Acceleration Account) in 2018-19. More details about the trial and links to download the open professional development resources appear at http://bit.ly/T-SEDA. |
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Teacher: Astrid do you think aliens are real?
Astrid: I agree with Alex.
Teacher: You agree with Alex. Do you know what Alex has said? ((Astrid shakes her head indicating no)) No, so think about what you- think about, you’re starting our conversation off. So do you think aliens are real? ((Astrid nods)) You do. Why do you think they're real?
Astrid: Well, I haven’t seen them and I think they are on the moon.
Teacher: So you've not seen them, but you think they're on the moon. So Astrid started our conversation. She thinks they're real. She's not seeing them but she thinks there might be aliens on the moon. Who’d like to go next? And then think about whether you agree or disagree with Astrid. Ethan.
Ethan: I disagree. Aliens are not real and I agree with Dylan and Rachel.
Teacher: So you had a chat with them already, have you?
Ethan: Yes.
Teacher: So what do you three think then, if you think the same.
Ethan: It might be a puppet show.
Teacher: Oh it might be a puppet show. What aliens might be just a puppet show. So
Ethan: Yes, because they’re not real.
Teacher: So it might be just like a pretence like we have in books and stories.
Ethan: Yes.
Teacher: So you think they're just pretended characters, made up characters.
Ethan: Yes.
Teacher: Wow. So we've got two different ideas. We've got Astrid who thinks they are real, these children think they're not real. Who do you agree with? Iris who do you agree with?
Iris: I agree with Ethan, Dylan and Rachel.
Teacher: Why?
Iris: Because, aliens are not real because people take pictures of them and nobody really looked around the whole moon but I haven’t seen any pictures of an alien on the moon.
Astrid: Because it’s on the very bottom.
Teacher: So Iris has said she doesn't think aliens are real because we would have seen the picture of one by now. We’d have a chance (inaudible) hear that people have been to the jungle and taking pictures of real animals. So why there isn’t a picture of an alien yet? So interesting, let's see. ((Teacher models with his hand the way the students should ask for a turn to speak)) Elsa.
Elsa: Because
Teacher: Who do you agree with?
Elsa: I disagree with everyone because, because aliens don’t live in jungles, they live on Mars and other planets.
Teacher: Have us- we've been to those planets yet? Have we landed on-
Elsa: No, only on the moon.
Teacher: Wow, so Elsa say “well, how can we say they're not real if we've not been there yet?” That's an interesting idea. Who would like to add to the conversation? Victor.
Victor: I agree with Astrid say they are real because I think they are on the moon and on other planets but they are hiding in craters on the moon and hiding under the ground on other planets.
Teacher: So maybe we’ve not seen them, Victor’s saying, because they're hiding from us.
Astrid: (inaudible)
Victor: Because they're scared.
Teacher: Because they’re scared.
Victor: And maybe they’re little and we’re big.
Teacher: Maybe they’re tiny and they’re scared of us.
Ethan: Maybe they’re this tall.
Teacher: Should we remember, remember when ((Teacher models with his hand the way the students should ask for a turn to speak)) remember- I think we are ready to probably talk with each other.
Astrid: I agree with Alex.
Teacher: You agree with Alex. Do you know what Alex has said? ((Astrid shakes her head indicating no)) No, so think about what you- think about, you’re starting our conversation off. So do you think aliens are real? ((Astrid nods)) You do. Why do you think they're real?
Astrid: Well, I haven’t seen them and I think they are on the moon.
Teacher: So you've not seen them, but you think they're on the moon. So Astrid started our conversation. She thinks they're real. She's not seeing them but she thinks there might be aliens on the moon. Who’d like to go next? And then think about whether you agree or disagree with Astrid. Ethan.
Ethan: I disagree. Aliens are not real and I agree with Dylan and Rachel.
Teacher: So you had a chat with them already, have you?
Ethan: Yes.
Teacher: So what do you three think then, if you think the same.
Ethan: It might be a puppet show.
Teacher: Oh it might be a puppet show. What aliens might be just a puppet show. So
Ethan: Yes, because they’re not real.
Teacher: So it might be just like a pretence like we have in books and stories.
Ethan: Yes.
Teacher: So you think they're just pretended characters, made up characters.
Ethan: Yes.
Teacher: Wow. So we've got two different ideas. We've got Astrid who thinks they are real, these children think they're not real. Who do you agree with? Iris who do you agree with?
Iris: I agree with Ethan, Dylan and Rachel.
Teacher: Why?
Iris: Because, aliens are not real because people take pictures of them and nobody really looked around the whole moon but I haven’t seen any pictures of an alien on the moon.
Astrid: Because it’s on the very bottom.
Teacher: So Iris has said she doesn't think aliens are real because we would have seen the picture of one by now. We’d have a chance (inaudible) hear that people have been to the jungle and taking pictures of real animals. So why there isn’t a picture of an alien yet? So interesting, let's see. ((Teacher models with his hand the way the students should ask for a turn to speak)) Elsa.
Elsa: Because
Teacher: Who do you agree with?
Elsa: I disagree with everyone because, because aliens don’t live in jungles, they live on Mars and other planets.
Teacher: Have us- we've been to those planets yet? Have we landed on-
Elsa: No, only on the moon.
Teacher: Wow, so Elsa say “well, how can we say they're not real if we've not been there yet?” That's an interesting idea. Who would like to add to the conversation? Victor.
Victor: I agree with Astrid say they are real because I think they are on the moon and on other planets but they are hiding in craters on the moon and hiding under the ground on other planets.
Teacher: So maybe we’ve not seen them, Victor’s saying, because they're hiding from us.
Astrid: (inaudible)
Victor: Because they're scared.
Teacher: Because they’re scared.
Victor: And maybe they’re little and we’re big.
Teacher: Maybe they’re tiny and they’re scared of us.
Ethan: Maybe they’re this tall.
Teacher: Should we remember, remember when ((Teacher models with his hand the way the students should ask for a turn to speak)) remember- I think we are ready to probably talk with each other.
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