Talk Time
Talk Time is the total amount of speech for each Speaker.
New York 4th Grade Math Lesson Summary
Your lesson included 5 minutes and 13 seconds of Talk Time, which was about 90% of the lesson. Of that Talk Time, 86% was Teacher Talk and 14% was Student Talk.
For every second of Student Talk Time, there were about 6.0 seconds of Teacher Talk Time.
Look at the ratio of Teacher Talk to Student Talk for this lesson. How does it compare to what you were expecting? How does it compare to your goal?
Blodgett (2014) made the case that “(t)he one doing the talking is the one doing the learning.” If this is true, why do Teachers Talk so much?
Controlling the Talk in a lesson gives the speaker power over the difficulty and direction of the discussion.
Giving students more Talk Time can help them “struggle productively” and explore the ideas that engage them about the material.Some Teachers are concerned that unrestrained Student Talk will be off topic. Even if it is, not all productive Student Talk is about the lesson material.
Talking with classmates releases tension and helps Students focus.
Talking helps Students form social connections.
These connections support them when they are learning things that challenge them.There are a variety of strategies for managing disruptive Student Talk:
