Constructive Talk in Challenging Classrooms: Strategies for Behaviour Management and Talk-Based Tasks (repost)
Constructive Talk in Challenging Classrooms: Strategies for Behaviour Management and Talk-Based Tasks By Valerie Coultas
Publisher: Routledge 2006 | 176 Pages | ISBN: 041540343X | PDF | 3 MB
Publisher: Routledge 2006 | 176 Pages | ISBN: 041540343X | PDF | 3 MB
'Valerie Coultas’s book on talk is primarily addressed to secondary English teachers, especially those who enjoy the challenge and lively contexts of inner city classrooms, providing the teaching equivalent of white water rafting. She has a lot of experience of working with pupils whose reading and writing skills are weak, but who bring to the classroom enormous energy and a wealth of experience combined with the ability to creatively express themselves orally in many different languages and vernaculars. She provides lots of practical and well-tried ways in turning that talk towards a learning purpose rather than stifling it through demands for silent reading and writing …