Available in every LKDSB elementary school, Intentional Talk by Elham Kazemi and Allison Hintz outlines 5 Targeted Discussion types to help teachers develop purposeful classroom conversations in math.

Four Principles for Classroom Discussion:

• Discussions should achieve a mathematical goal

• Students need to know what and how to share

• Teachers need to orient student to one another and the mathematical ideas

• Teachers must communicate that all students are sense makers and that their ideas are valued