First Steps

- The revoicing move can be introduced into teaching without fanfare.

- Students can learn revoicing techniques with explicit coaching.

- Revoicing is highly effective yet simple.

- Students usually want to explain themselves when given the opportunity and they improve with practice.

- Some students will appear uncomfortable at first.

- Teacher can consider announcing to class that talk will be used in new ways and describe what students might expect.

Next Steps

- After initial trial period with talk moves, teachers shift to a stage of implementation during which the students receive explicit information about the moves and their purposes.

- Students may balk at the expectation that they develop the ability to listen and to even repeat classmates' contributions.

- The "agree/disagree" move can be problematic with students who perceive it as unfriendly to disagree with classmates -- teachers can find creative remedies to this issue.

- Students develop an understanding over time that disagreement with an idea is different from personal criticism.