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THE PRACTICE: Student-Controlled Classroom Discourse - Students are given the opportunity to control some portion of the lesson, providing teachers with insight into the ways that speech and negotiation are used in the home and community.
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Content Presented By:
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The Education Alliance at Brown University
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What is it?
Children who experience discontinuity in the use of language at home and at school are often misunderstood in classrooms. For example, rules for turn-taking at home may encourage multiple simultaneous speakers, as opposed to the one speaker at a time rule in school.
Students' prior experiences cannot form the basis of new learning, if their ways of communicating and making sense of new material are not considered acceptable in school. Once teachers understand home and community norms, they can help students expand their discourse repertoire.
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