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29 January 2021
Tips and techniques

Live online lessons - talk tip

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29 January 2021
Tips and techniques

Some teachers have mentioned to me recently that it can be challenging to get high-quality talk and dialogue going in their live online lessons.

Here’s a simple strategy that I use in sessions with adults as well as children:

  1. Get everyone to go and find something red.

  2. Ask everyone to show their red object if they disagree with what someone else has said.

It’s worth incorporating this into a game at first so everyone gets used to it.

Six participants in a Zoom meeting holding up red objects including phone case, red paper, paint pot
 
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