Five principles in dialogic teaching

• 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.).