Quality Talk
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Quality Talk is
a teacher-facilitated, small-group discussion approach that encourages students
to use talk as a tool for thinking and inter-thinking. The discussion model is
a multifaceted approach that aims to improve students’ high-level comprehension
and critical-analytic thinking about, around, and with text and content through
initial professional development, ongoing coaching, and comprehensive
curricular materials. The approach has effectively increased students' fluency,
basic and high-level comprehension, and oral and written argumentation in
elementary language arts, high-school physics and chemistry, and elementary and
university-level second-language learning in the United States, South Africa,
Taiwan, and mainland China.
Quality Talk is
a teacher-facilitated, small-group discussion approach that encourages students
to use talk as a tool for thinking and inter-thinking. The discussion model is
a multifaceted approach that aims to improve students’ high-level comprehension
and critical-analytic thinking about, around, and with text and content through
initial professional development, ongoing coaching, and comprehensive
curricular materials. The approach has effectively increased students' fluency,
basic and high-level comprehension, and oral and written argumentation in
elementary language arts, high-school physics and chemistry, and elementary and
university-level second-language learning in the United States, South Africa,
Taiwan, and mainland China.