{"id":27,"date":"2022-05-04T13:25:22","date_gmt":"2022-05-04T12:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/in\/pase\/?page_id=27"},"modified":"2025-06-25T11:27:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T10:27:17","slug":"early-level","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/in\/pase\/literacy\/early-level\/","title":{"rendered":"Listening and Talking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"TextRun SCXW133614286 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW133614286 BCX0\">Dialogic Teaching aims to improve pupil engagement and attainment by improving the quality of classroom talk. Teachers are trained in strategies that enable pupils to reason, discuss, argue and explain rather than merely respond, in order to develop higher order thinking and articulacy.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">EEF Summary<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:40,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">We know that the nature and quality of teaching practice in the classroom has a big impact on pupil learning. Pilots of dialogic teaching in the UK have suggested that it can change teachers\u2019 practice, and there is other evidence that cognitively challenging classroom talk can lead to gains for pupils in language, mathematics and science, but this is the first trial of this approach,<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"none\">Children in Dialogic Teaching schools made two additional months\u2019 progress in English and science, and one additional month\u2019s progress in maths, compared to children in control schools, on average. The three padlock security rating means we are moderately confident that this difference was due to the intervention and not to other factors.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"none\">Children eligible for free school meals (FSM) made two additional months\u2019 progress in English, science, and maths compared to FSM children in control schools. The smaller number of FSM pupils in the trial limits the security of this result.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"none\">The intervention was highly regarded by headteachers, mentors, and teachers who thought that the Dialogic Teaching approach had positive effects on pupil confidence and engagement.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"none\">The majority of participating teachers felt that it would take longer than two terms to fully embed a Dialogic Teaching approach in their classrooms. It could therefore be valuable to test the impact of the intervention over a longer period.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"none\">This intervention requires teachers to change classroom talk across the curriculum, supported by training, handbooks, video, and regular review meetings with mentors. Future research could aim to differentiate the effects of these different elements.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dialogic Teaching aims to improve pupil engagement and attainment by improving the quality of classroom talk. Teachers are trained in strategies that enable pupils to reason, discuss, argue and explain rather than merely respond, in order to develop higher order thinking and articulacy.\u00a0 EEF Summary\u00a0 We know that the nature and quality of teaching practice &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/in\/pase\/literacy\/early-level\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Listening and Talking<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8066,"featured_media":0,"parent":4,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-27","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/in\/pase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/in\/pase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/in\/pase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/in\/pase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8066"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/in\/pase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/in\/pase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":756,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/in\/pase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27\/revisions\/756"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/in\/pase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/in\/pase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}