Classroom Oracy in Action

Boost your teaching skills with McGraw Hill

Take your understanding of classroom talk to the next level with this three-week course from McGraw Hill. Following on from An Introduction to Oracy in the Classroom, this course will help enhance your teaching skills and give you practical insights for effectively integrating oracy in educational contexts.

Throughout the course, you’ll analyse real-world classroom scenarios to ensure you build practical strategies to implement oracy. You’ll also draw on teachers’ perspectives, gain expert advice, and delve into current research to help you master best practices.

Learn how to move towards dialogic teaching

You’ll start by understanding how to establish a dialogic culture in your classroom to create purposeful discussions that engage all students.

Learning how to switch between dialogic and authoritative communication modes to meet diverse classroom needs, you’ll be able to promote authentic pupil voices to build confidence and participation.

Understand how to harness digital technology in your classroom

Next, you’ll learn how to use digital technology as a stimulus for meaningful classroom talk, fostering engagement and creativity.

You’ll develop skills to create ‘dialogic spaces’ and build pupils’ metacognitive awareness using technology, enabling richer discussion and collaborative learning.

Promote your ideas to help shape the school culture

Finally, you’ll learn to create a school culture that values and promotes high-quality talk. You’ll build an understanding of oracy practices among staff and pupils to encourage consistency and collective growth.

You’ll also understand how to use a three-part model to ensure a structured, school-wide approach.

This course is designed for anyone interested in using oracy in educational settings.

Whether you’re a recent graduate considering teaching or you’re an experienced educator looking to expand your knowledge, you’ll learn how purposeful classroom talk contributes to both personal and academic development.

This course is designed for anyone interested in using oracy in educational settings.

Whether you’re a recent graduate considering teaching or you’re an experienced educator looking to expand your knowledge, you’ll learn how purposeful classroom talk contributes to both personal and academic development.

• Explore how to establish a dialogic culture in a classroom.
• Apply features of dialogic teaching into your practice.
• Explore how to switch between dialogic and authoritative modes of communication.
• Evaluate ways of promoting students’ authentic voices.
• Explore how to use digital technology as a stimulus for talk.
• Create ‘dialogic space’ using digital technology.
• Develop pupils’ metacognitive awareness of talk using digital technology.
• Create a culture across a school community that values talk.
• Explore how to build a common understanding of talk across a school.
• Evaluate progress in children’s talk.
• Explore how to plan for talk using a three-part model.