- Collective: Teachers and children address learning tasks together, either as a group or as a class.
- Reciprocal: Teachers and children listen to each other, share ideas, and consider alternative viewpoints.
- Supportive: Children articulate their ideas freely without fear of embarrassment over ‘wrong’ answers; children help each other reach common understandings.
- Cumulative: Teachers and children build on their own and each other’s knowledge and experiences.
- Purposeful: Teachers plan and facilitate dialogic teaching with particular educational goals.
Although the five principles were later reduced to three - collectivity, supportivity,
and purposefulness, I am trialling the five in my classroom to encourage dialogical discussions.
Reference: Alexander, R. (2006). Towards dialogic teaching (3rd ed.).
