1. Listening For Accountable Talk
Indicators and Features of Accountable Talk

2. Engagement with Learning Through Talk
A substantial portion of instructional time involves students in talk related to the concepts delineated in the standards.
Teachers create the norms and skills of Accountable Talk in their classrooms by modeling appropriate forms of discussion and by questioning, probing and leading conversations.

3. Accountability To The Learning Community
Students actively participate in classroom talk.
Students listen attentively to one another
Students elaborate and build upon ideas and each others contributions.
Students work toward the goal of clarifying or expanding a proposition.

4. Students elaborate and build upon ideas and each others contributions
Write two examples of how this might be expressed.
Share this information with the group

5. Examples of Accountability to the Learning Community
Remember:
Student Accountability
Teacher Accountability
“ Who can repeat what Jose just said?”

6. Examples of Accountability to the Learning Community
“ Say more, and speak up so everyone can hear”
“ Can Anyone add onto the idea Clarence is building?”

7. Students work toward the goal of clarifying or expanding a proposition
Write two statements and share with your table how this might sound.

8. Accountability to Knowledge
Students make use of specific and accurate knowledge.
Students provide evidence for claims and arguments.
Students identify the knowledge that may not be available yet which is needed to address an issue.

9. Accountability to Rigorous Thinking
Students formulate conjectures and hypotheses.
Students synthesize several sources of information.
Students test their own understanding of concepts.

10. Accountability to Rigorous Thinking
Classroom talk is accountable to generally accepted standards of reasoning.
Students challenge the quality of each other’s evidence and reasoning.
Classroom talk is accountable to standards of evidence appropriate to the subject matter.

11. Examples of Accountability to Rigorous Thinking
“ So why do you think that?”
“ How did you arrive at that conclusion?”
“ So let me see if we understand your reasoning…”

12. Improving Student Achievement
How do you plan to address the improvement of student achievement this year?
How will you incorporate Accountable Talk into your PD for this school year and measure whether you see it?
If you were to change anything you did last year to improve student achievement, what would it be?