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Practical and Conceptual Tools for Teacher Learning About Equitable Classroom Discussion

Wed, April 23, 9:00 to 10:30am MDT (9:00 to 10:30am MDT), The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Meeting Room Level, Room 108

Session Type: Symposium

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Classroom communication research has established the central role of high-quality discussion in learners’ developing understandings and in their social participation in and beyond school. Given the ongoing difficulties teachers encounter in orchestrating impactful and equitable classroom discussions—further complicated by the expanding range of communication tools—there is a pressing need to support teacher learning in facilitating consequential and equity-oriented student discourse. This symposium brings together three institutionally, disciplinarily, and methodologically diverse researcher-practitioner teams that focus on enhancing teacher capacity to facilitate equitable classroom discussion. The three empirical papers detail the development and implementation of conceptual and practical tools designed to support in-service English and science teachers’ learning about discussion facilitation.

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