
My colleague, Professor Neil Mercer, has recently published his brilliant new book: Oracy – The Transformative Power of Finding Your Voice.
It’s written for a general audience and looks at oracy in a broad context.
Get hold of your copy to dive deeper into
how spoken language is an essential part of what makes us human
what oracy is, and what it isn’t
the problematic concept of ‘talking proper’
and much more besides.
Neil’s book provides food for thought not just for teachers and leaders, but for your friends and family too. It’s available now at all good booksellers.
“At school, I learned how to calculate the area of a triangle, but not how to make a good speech, chair a meeting or work well in a team.”
Recommended reading for teachers and everyone else too!
Would you rather spend most of your time indoors or outdoors? And more
Learners recall fiction, processes, explanations and more by listening and building on what others have said
Are these examples of adventure, bravery, or both?
How one teacher got everyone thinking, talking, listening and learning
Give pupils the skills and resilience to work with a diverse range of people
Talk prompts and sentence stems to help learners express different types of thinking
Help students to use the language of Maths
Lawrence the Lion and Maple the Meerkat tackle some philosophical dilemmas…
An example of using children’s wonderings to guide a philosophical discussion
My top three strategies to make sure every pupil speaks during whole-class learning
Get your class thinking about fairness, teamwork, competition and more
The importance of positive, transparent systems for deciding who responds
Can they remember what everyone else said?