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D-A-T-E Week: Dialogic Teaching Online
Talk is central to the learning process (Alexander, 2020).
As we talk and exchange thoughts with others, we learn to think for ourselves and advance our capacity for productive, rational and reflective thinking.
Within the classroom, talk scaffolds new understanding and encourages students’ attention and motivation, increases their time on task, and produces observable and measurable learning gains. Talk gives teachers access to students’ thinking and helps them diagnose needs, devise learning tasks, probe understanding, assess progress, and provide meaningful feedback. Talk is also vital for civic/work participation and engagement. We need people who can argue, challenge, question, present cases and evaluate them and who can test the argument and rhetoric of others.
In this session we examine dialogic teaching and how teachers can help students learn through talk while also developing their oracy skills.
Session Objectives
By the end of this session you will have:
- considered the principles of dialogic teaching
- evaluated dialogic pedagogy as an approach to teaching HE students
- analysed classroom talk guided by principles of dialogic pedagogy
- developed an awareness of teacher talk which promotes dialogic pedagogy and thereby higher order thinking
Speakers: Lynne Bremner and Dr Helen Donaghue
- Date:
- Tuesday, September 9, 2025
- Time:
- 2:00pm - 2:55pm
- Time Zone:
- UK, Ireland, Lisbon Time (change)
- Online:
- This is an online event. Event URL will be sent via registration email.
- Audience:
- Collaborative Partners Staff QMU Academic Staff QMU Contract Researchers QMU Early Career Researchers QMU Professional Services Staff QMU Research Staff QMU Teaching Staff
- Categories:
- D-A-T-E LEAD Workshops