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RECIPROCAL TEACHING

Situation

Despite their best efforts don’t you find your students struggling with the responsibilities of the teacher role? That asking just the right questions is a formidable job that calls for high levels of language? And that the intellectual skills needed for clarifying and summarising seem too advanced for some students? Yet you know these skills are teachable…

 

Solution 

By using visual tools in reciprocal teaching strategy you can overcome these barriers. Organising the key points visually helps the student adopting the teacher role to ask better questions. And as the visual is itself a summary, summarising is particularly advantaged. The social skills needed for clarifying dialogue is directly supported by the shared focus of a visual tool that directs and structures the conversation: a speaking and listening framework.   

 

Benefits 

By visual tools as a key resource in reciprocal teaching, you can expect to see your students:

  • - Creating and communicating personal understanding
  • - Probing others’ understanding by posing appropriate questions
  • - Monitoring the group’s understanding by constant references to the content of the visual tool
  • - Summarising the content by highlighting the key components
  • - Adopting the teacher role in associated activities such a JigSawing group work.

 

Links

As you can see, these benefits have an impact on other areas of learning. Click on the following to read about Collaborative Learning, Thinking Skills, Learn to Learn, Behaviour Management.