Graduate and Continuing Education is excited to offer a new course this summer, Teaching Through Dialogue: A Course for Teachers Who Want to Foster More Engaging, Meaning-Making, Student-Centered Talk.

 The dream and the reality

While we fondly remember participating in exciting, dynamic discussions about academic topics, sometimes this dream falls short when we try to get these discussions going in our own classes. This course offers research about stimulating, maintaining, and going deeper with dialogue with high school students across the content areas, as well as opportunities to learn from case studies in your classrooms.

How the course works

This course brings together theory, practice, and reflection. Teachers will study the multi-faceted theory and research on dialogue, and then work with recordings of class discussions from their own teaching to pinpoint successful student and teacher discussion moves and to plan ways to integrate new moves and approaches into their teaching. Teachers should be prepared to share both successes and obstacles in the spirit of a collaborative working group of peers. This course is designed to support reflection-in-action so that each participant can work on individually set goals within the realm of dialogue.

Credit towards the Master of Arts in Teaching English (MAT)

This courses qualifies as a required literature course for English MAT degree seeking students.

40319 ENGL 9032
Instructor: Dr. Wendy Keyser
Summer Session I: May 31 - July 1, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 5:30-9:15pm

Thanks to Dr. Keyser for writing and sharing this post.