Science Talk Moves

We know from experience that creating opportunities does not guarantee that students will feel comfortable stepping forward into those opportunities. All students need time to get used to the idea that teachers are genuinely interested in their ideas, and not just in getting to the right answer quickly. Some students may come from cultures in which students are expected to learn silently and to memorize what experts tell them. Other students may be full of interesting ideas, but have little experience in how to insert them into the flow of an academic conversation, or little confidence that their classmates will have sufficient patience with their sometimes halting or imperfect language use. Both the Teacher Discourse Moves and Student Discourse Moves described below are critical to supporting students in taking important steps to engage with one another in the discourse of learning. 

Source: Doing and Talking Math and Science