Thread by @teacherfeature2

Oracy in action: a thread. 🧵 Oracy is a tool in my teacher toolkit that I loved utilising in the classroom. In my earlier years of teaching, I felt like it was a race against time to get through the lesson content and couldn’t imagine how I would possible squeeze in MORE talk…

V. quickly I realised discussion and dialogue were a powerful vehicle to achieve the same end goal. I slowly began to incorporate more dialogue and discussion into my lessons finding that often, my role as ‘teacher’ became more akin to that of a chairperson in a debate

I would deliver explicit instruction, check for understanding and then offer up a question to develop and deepen that initial understanding. From that point forward, my role was to facilitate the conversation and where necessary nudge understanding in the right direction and…

…address misconceptions when they arose. In this way, pupils were able to lend on each other’s developing ‘expertise’ in the subject to cognitively restructure their initial understanding.

Some handy oracy resources:
- voice21.org/oracy/ @voice21oracy
- talkthetalkuk.org/wp-content/upl…
- oracycambridge.org/resources/ @OracyCambridge