Teachers play an important role in orchestrating the dialogue in a classroom. They can facilitate rich exchanges and conversations about ideas and knowledge, and present students with opportunities to articulate and build their understanding. In particular, effective questioning can help to provide students with rich learning opportunities, while facilitating explanations that are detailed and coherent can help to build deep understanding.
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| 536 536 plays | 5/5 (5 Votes)In this Japanese classroom, explanations are rather interesting. It is a student who gives the class a detailed explanation, with the teacher only contributing to pause… -
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| 459 459 plays | 5/5 (2 Votes)This Colombian teacher starts their lesson with a moment of reflection. He shares a quote that encourages students to reflect on their values and how they live their… -
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| 453 453 plays | 5/5 (1 Vote)This Colombian teacher offers an example of how to use questioning to engage a range of students across the classroom in learning. The teacher makes use of the classroom… -
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| 323 323 plays | 5/5 (4 Votes)Visit this Colombian classroom where the students have been working on complex real world problems. Here, the students are modelling to the class in an immersive way how… -
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| 376 376 plays | 4.8/5 (4 Votes)In this Mexican classroom the teacher has asked students to work in groups on trying to match different containers to different graphs based on how the containers would… -
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| 233 233 plays | 4.7/5 (6 Votes)Students are naturally inquisitive, but sometimes it can be hard to encourage this in the classroom. In this classroom the teacher embraces a question and thought from a…