WHY WE NEED PRODUCTIVE DIALOGUE AND THE UTILITY OF DIALOGUE PROTOCOLS

When choosing a prompt, keep in mind the appropriateness of the protocol for the task at hand, and be very mindful of what you want students to get out of the dialogue. Are they making sense of something and so need an open-ended prompt? Are they summarizing and so might benefit from a paraphrasing opportunity? Are they brainstorming? Are they adding to their knowledge by listening to other ideas? Each purpose for dialogue will necessitate a specific protocol. Below is are two resources that you can draw from:

1) Productive Dialogue.pptx We’ve organized them according to ones that we have found typically work the best and with the least amount of prep. Each of the dialogues int his slide show can be modified in many ways for any kind to topic or text prompt. There is accompanying information in the teacher notes to help you understand how these prompts can be used.

2) Dialogue Toolkit NGSS.pdf This resource document provides information about how to match protocols and prompts. This document summarizes ideas found in Success in Science through Dialogue, Reading and Writing, by Arthur Beauchamp, Judi Kusnick, Rick McCallum and Jim Hollander.

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