Topic > Talk Move: Revoicing - 981

Introduction and rationaleTalk moves are strategies used to promote, guide and improve discussion between a teacher and students and between students themselves and also to make students more responsible for their own learning and participation in class. The speech movement strategy that I chose to analyze from my teaching was revoking. Repetition is when the teacher restates a question or statement that a student asks or says. The main purpose of repeating what a student says is twofold. First, it allows all students to hear the question if they couldn't hear what was said initially. Repeating voices also allows the student to repeat their question or statement to ensure the teacher understood exactly what was said. When I decided which speech movement I wanted to analyze, I examined all my lectures and the nature of the discussions within them. Some classes are better than others at holding discussions, but in classes that I would classify as having the lowest discussion and participation skills, revoicing made the most sense. I imagine a class. Pre-Calculus, where I have some really talkative students who always want an immediate answer to their questions while the other students in the class are completely ignorant of everything going on around them. I thought that by focusing on repeating the voices, I would be able to slow down very talkative students by giving them more time to process while at the same time trying to give inattentive students another way to refocus without putting them in a bind in the middle of the lesson and force them into the conversation. Unfortunately, based on the schedule of unit evaluation, conferences and spring break, there were no three consecutive...... middle of paper ...... the camera did not capture an audible sound . I also know that sometimes I don't speak loud enough to the whole class, particularly in Pre-Calculus, when I ask an individual question that was aimed at the whole class. The Pre-Calculus course is the one where I need to express my voice the most as I believe that course has the largest gap in participation among students and could benefit the most from the change. However, I feel like I am more aware after deciding to focus on this I talk about movement because I find myself making a mental note of when I revoke. Revocation is relatively easy to do when the class size is small and I have no time constraints. When the class size is larger and the class moves at a faster pace, it is more difficult to make the decision to renew the entry. This is where I should and must focus more moving forward with revoicing.