Artifact 10: Turn-and-Talk Coaching Cards
I learned about the following resource from Ms. Tatiana K. Lim-Breitbart of California College Preparatory Academy in Berkeley, CA. Ms. Lim-Breitbart's presented at the National Science Teachers Association Conference on April 4, 2013 in Boston, Massachusetts. The coaching cards she described below contain discussion starter prompts to guide academic discourse in the classroom. The cards can be used both by students with their teams to facilitate academic discourse and by teachers to help a student guide whole class academic discourse. Academic discourse in the classroom will not only help students construct scientific knowledge and practice scientific literacy skills but also prepare students for discourse in their future jobs and careers paths