Question

Discuss whether the following strategies promote effective talk in the classroom
1.talk partners
2.two or fours
3.evoying
4.jigsaw

Answer 1

• Talk partners improves the aspect of problem solving whereby, students value talk for their learning and use it to advance their thinking
• Twos or fours when the partners come together they match up with another to compare their discussion. This enables them to come up with a good conclusion at the end of the exercise
• Jigsaw students depend on each other to succeed whereby an assignment is divided into topics and students are split into groups with one member assigned to each topic each learns about his or her topic and presents it to their group.It brings about both individual accountability and achievement of the team goals