1. Accountable Talk with English learners
December 2017
Accountable Talk with English learners

2. Model Performance Indicator
Language function
Participants will synthesize information using texts, videos and their colleagues’ experiences in order to engage in an academic discussion about accountable talk.
Supports
Content stem
2 minutes

3. Talking? answergarden.ch/610365
5 minutes 
Secondary – one original sentence per week
In our observations
There are opportunities for students to practice speaking  
Teacher directed speaking opportunities – few opportunities for many students to speak

4. Turn and Talk How do you get students talking?
What challenges have you had in getting students to talk?
What helps to overcome the challenges?
4 minutes

5. Reflection On your lesson plan, circle examples of student talk.
Based on your lesson, how much time did the students engage in talk?
6 minutes

6. Student Talk Student Centered Discussion Teacher Centered Discussion
Teacher – more traditional, more often what we see, less opportunity to interact with the language, easier to control, very little student-to-student talk
Student – more student to student, may feel less controllable, students interact more with language and build on each other's ideas
5 minutes

7. How would this look, feel, and Sound?
Teacher-Centered Discussion
Student-Centered Discussion
Teacher evaluates the understanding of only one child at a time
Students can become disengaged because they do not have constant opportunities to actively participate
Students may not retain new information for an extended period without the chance to discuss it actively
Students are engaged because they are allowed to use their natural inclination to talk to each other.
Student process lesson material more deeply through active discussion and defense of their ideas and opinions
Teacher is able to assess every student through his or her participation in the conversation
Visual representation
20 minutes

8. https://www. polleverywhere
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4 minutes

9. Accountable talk
Student talk that seriously responds to and further develops what others in the group have said. It puts forth and demands knowledge that is accurate and relevant to the issue under discussion. This academically productive talk uses evidence appropriate to the discipline and follows established norms of good reasoning. Accountable talk sharpens students’ thinking by reinforcing their ability to use and create knowledge.
Circle – surprising
? - confusing
Underline – important
7 minutes
Circle – surprising​
? - confusing​
Underline – important

10. Tweet @BCPSESOL #accountabletalk tinyurl.com/esolat
Watch the video then tweet out a summary statement about student centered talk. 
Tweet your summary statement If you don't have twitter, write no more than 180 characters on a post it.
10 minutes

11. Lunch
Return in 45 minutes

12. Types of Accountable Talk tinyurl.com/typesoftalk
Accountable to the Learning Community
Accountable to Accurate Knowledge
Accountable to Rigorous Thinking
In groups of three (each type of talk should be represented), explain to your group:
The type of accountability and why it is important
The observable evidence of this accountability 
As a group, create a listening checklist that you can use to evaluate the accountable talk in your class.
Count off as L-A-R.
Then count off numbers for the total number of people in each group.  Find your number group.
Checklist might include:  clarification, extending on what someone is saying...
25 minutes

13. Types of Accountable Talk TINYURL.COM/ESOLAT
Use the checklist you just created to evaluate the accountable talk in the classroom.
Use the checklist you just created to evaluate the accountable talk in the classroom.
How did the discussion evaluate?  
10 minutes

14. Reflection On your lesson plan, annotate as follows:
Green – Opportunities for talk that is accountable to the learning community
Blue – Opportunities for talk that is accountable to accurate knowledge
Red – Opportunities for talk that is accountable to rigorous thinking
If you find that there are few opportunities for accountable talk, add in opportunities for accountable talk using the color coding above.
10 minutes

15. Teacher moves tinyurl.com/teachermovesat
Moves that Support Accountability to the Learning Community
Moves that Support Accountability to Accurate Knowledge
Moves that Support Accountability to Rigorous Thinking
Combine groups
Discuss:  What is role of the teacher in student centered discussion?  
Each group should select:  
A teacher
A tracker (T>S, T>Ss, S><S, etc)  
Discussion participants

16. Debrief
Tweet out #accountabletalk) or share on a post-it one teacher move to practice implementing in class. 
10 minutes
How did the teacher moves help in promoting accountable talk?
How did the teacher moves improve the conversation?
Were there areas in which the teacher could have done something differently to promote meaningful discussion?

17. Model Performance Indicator
Language function
Participants will synthesize information using texts, videos and their colleagues’ experiences in order to engage in an academic discussion about accountable talk.
Supports
Content stem
2 minutes