Talking Together (SP) Public

Strategic Instruction Model™ Learning Strategies

Earned through demonstration of competence in instruction a teacher to use the strategy with students.

Required Evidence

1. Partner with Active SIM Professional Developer

Post the name of the active SIM Professional Developer who will partner with you in this process. More Info

2. Teach the Strategy with Fidelity

Teach the strategy in its entirety to a person or class, following the instructional steps in the manual (*may link to Fidelity of Implementation (FI) evidence if you've already earned this badge). More Info

3. Portfolio of Implementation Showing Fidelity

Submit your portfolio of implementation (*may link to Fidelity of Implementation (FI) Credential evidence if you've already earned this badge). More Info

4. Supporting Observation/Video Showing Fidelity

Submit supporting Observation and/or Video (*may link to Fidelity of Implementation (FI) Credential evidence if you've already earned this badge). More Info

5. Student Portfolio Showing Evidence of Fidelity

Submit one student portfolio that shows complete implementation of the strategy. Be sure to remove all student identifying information. (*may link to Fidelity of Implementation (FI) Credential evidence if you've already earned this badge). More Info

8. Describe Their Implementation

Describe implementation in the instructor's class with student(s) What were the successes? What were the challenges? How did the two of you problem solve the issues? What adjustments did you make? More Info

Badge Overview

About this Strategy

Authors: D. Sue Vernon, Donald D. Deshler, and Jean B. Schumaker
Publication Info: Edge Enterprises, 2000
Talking Together is designed to introduce the concept of learning community to students and to teach them how to participate respectfully in class discussions. Students learn basic strategies for controlling their behavior during discussions, including how to take turns, how to give others a chance to speak and be heard, and how to express respect and kindness toward others. These skills are foundational to communication within communities, and students can use them throughout their lives.In a research study involving 20 teachers and 377 students, results showed that students in experimental classes that had participated in Talking Together lessons knew significantly more about how to create a classroom community, participated more frequently, and engaged in fewer behaviors that would disrupt a discussion than the comparison classes. The overall percentage of students who contributed to conversations increased in experimental classes from a mean of 71 percent before instruction to a mean of 86 percent after instruction. In comparison classes, a mean of 78 percent and 79 percent of students participated.

How to earn this micro-credential badge

Micro-credentials in the SIM series enable teachers to verify skills in delivering instruction of the SIM Learning Strategies and Content Enhancement Routines and other educational programs offered through the University of Kansas Center for Research on Learning. To earn the micro-credential badge:

Click the green “join this badge” button and sign up/sign in if needed.
Post your evidence specified in the “Required Evidence” section by clicking on the blue “Post” buttons, or you can click into the Evidence section and post from there.
Notify your SIM Professional Developer partner when you have completed posting your evidence, that is who will give final approval and award the badge.

Technical Tips

Badge List provides a place to organize evidence of your work. You may choose to type that evidence directly into a “Required Evidence” section (as when you post the name of your professional developer or a description or narrative about your work), but much of your evidence will be stored elsewhere (longer documents, video, pdf documents, images, spreadsheets, etc.) and linked into your badge.

Video:  Upload video to a cloud-hosting site like Vimeo, or YouTube using privacy settings that provide a private link to view the video, keeping it unlisted on the public website. You will then post the link to that video in the evidence section, along with any comments you wish to include.

Documents, Image files, spreadsheets, PDF files, etc:  You will upload your document, image file, pdf, spreadsheet, etc. to a cloud-hosting site. You will then post the link in the evidence section, along with any comments you wish to include. We have found Google Drive to be a really simple tool for accomplishing this, but Drop Box or File Dropper or any file storage site that gives you a link to your file works.

To use Google Drive to post documents, images , spreadsheets, pdf, etc.:

Open Google Drive
Hit the red “New” button
Select “File Upload” and choose the file you wish to upload
Click on “Share”
Get Shareable Link
Paste the link into your evidence section along with any comments you wish to include.

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