Book+Club

media type="custom" key="24439808" Join #pypchat, December 3rd and 4th as we discuss Peter H. Johnston's //Choice Words// and the importance of choice language in the classroom.

Available in your local bookstore and on Amazon

Language, according to Johnston is not only representational but constitutive. It creates "realities and invites identities." The language we use in classrooms creates relationships and shapes the way students think about themselves and each other. It's important.

Questions to guide our discussion:
 * How much time do you spend thinking about the language you use in the classroom?
 * What words work well? What words meet resistance?
 * What words do you use to position students as collaborators in the classroom?
 * How do your students talk about their work? Themselves?
 * How do you invite children to notice things? Why is this important?
 * How do create a classroom climate where students have a sense of agency, responsibility?
 * What kinds of language encourage student ownership of learning?
 * How do you model a disposition towards thinking and learning via your choice of language in the classroom?
 * What language can encourage questions? Shut it down?
 * How do you help students develop language for reflection and metacognition?
 * Why is a classroom of "we" so powerful?

Book Reviews and information about //Choice Words://

Book club information An interview with Johnston, including talk of another book: Opening Minds Facebook about Choice Words A Webinar with Peter Johnston [|How Language affects our Teaching]

=Resources from the Asia Pacific chat on 4th December= YouTube [|Why Leaders Eat Last] Blogpost from Edna [|Shared Photo Streams - Imagining more connected learning] Blogpost from Craig D [|Tea time] Another blogpost from Craig D [|Argument is war] Blogpost from Stephanie[| Harkness discussion - making teamwork work] Visible Thinking Routine [|See, Think, Wonder] [|Infographic] of words that encourage or discourage growth and change Blogpost from Craig D about [|listening] YouTube [|What Teachers Say]

**Resources from the America's Chat Dec. 4, 2014**
You haven’t got it … YET? What if...? What makes you say that? Explain your thinking. What makes you say that? What questions do you have? So now that we know something, so what? How else might you…? Why do you think so? What next? I noticed that..." How did you….?
 * Words that work well in the classroom: **

I need you to... No, that's not the way. I told you to… <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Next time you need to... <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">You must do it this way...
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Words that meet with resistance in the classroom: **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I need your help… <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I was wondering what you thought about… <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Should we... <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Let's consider this together... <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">What if we… <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Can anyone add to that? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Mary said xyz, do you agree with that? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Can anyone think of another way? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Is that similar to… <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Have you checked with… <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">What do you think? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">That sounds different than… <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Go compare that with... <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Can we build on that idea? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Good morning scientists! <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #292f33; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 19px; vertical-align: baseline;">
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Language that positions students as collaborators: **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">when they say "I haven't figured this out yet," or say, "I'm not sure" or "I don't know" with curiosity, not resignation
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">How students talk about their work: **

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 * Resources from previous #pypchat previous book clubs.**

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No Child Left Inside: The New Nature Movement

Nature Deficit Disorder (Education.com)

BBC News - Nature Deficit Disorder 'Damaging Britain's Children'