1. Academic Discourse That Deepens Learning: Listen, Write, Dialogue, and Debate
Diane Hubona
CIU#10 PIIC Coaching Mentor
Ona Feinberg and Jennifer Tranell
State College Area SD Coaches

2. Learning Targets
Participants will explore the purpose and types of academic discourse
Participants will analyze the scaffolding of instructional activities that leads to rigorous student-led dialogue
Participants will participate in two model lessons employing academic discourse techniques

3. Food for Thought…Jot-a-Thought
"Reading and writing float on a sea of talk."
---James Britton

4. Sorting Things Out… Facilitating Classroom Dialogue

6. Dialogue…What we ‘ve done
1 thing that stood out for you about the teacher/student exchange
How can we shift conversation from teacher centered to student centered?

7. Literature Circles—3-2-1 Protocol
Content-Area Conversations by Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, and Carol Rothenberg
3 things that you learned in the reading
2 things that surprised you in the reading
1 question for group discussion

8. Talk in Essay
Read
Discuss
Share
Record

9. Fostering Student Questioning in the Classroom

10. Interview an Image

11. Create Interview Questions
Based on your pair/share discussion, make a list of questions you’d like to ask these boys.
You might think about their work, background, ages, lifestyle, etc.
Imagine you are a newspaper reporter assigned to do a story on child labor in 1909.
What would you want to ask in order to write a story?
Develop questions

12. Right Here, Right Now Mini-Inquiry
Pick one question to research
Speak to the class as if you are one of the boys in the photo or
Write a short, factually based narrative as if you were one of the mill workers

13. Ticket out the Door
PD should not be about a workshop, class, or activity. It’s a mindset. It a relentless pursuit of being better tomorrow than we were today.
Danny Steele—Alabama Teacher of the Year tweet
Create a 140 character tweet discussing the professional learning you will share with your peers about academic discourse.