ArgCoach: Building Better Arguments Together!
Practice facilitating productive discussions in a low-risk simulation of classroom talk.
Productive discussion involves more than just sharing opinions.
Help students clarify their thinking, support their ideas with reasons and evidence, consider different perspectives, and respond to challenges from their peers.
Productive discussion involves more than just sharing opinions.
Help students clarify their thinking, support their ideas with reasons and evidence, consider different perspectives, and respond to challenges from their peers.
Learn: Build your knowledge with experts and peers
Practice: Try facilitation in a low-risk simulation
Reflect and Continue: Come back to deepen your understanding
- Learn core criteria for evaluating student arguments.
- Connect core criteria to facilitation practices that help students improve their arguments.
- Take part in text-based discussions with experts and peers.
- Listen to students develop and challenge ideas.
- Decide when to intervene and what to say to improve student arguments.
- Practice choosing responses that help students improve their arguments.
- Examine how different teacher responses can strengthen -or limit- opportunities for student learning.
- Discuss your facilitation successes and challenges with peers and experts.
- Explore new discussion topics and facilitation practices.
Practice Today.
Be Ready for the Classroom Tomorrow.
Be Ready for the Classroom Tomorrow.
- Classroom discussions can be unpredictable.ArgCoach gives you a space to explore discussion topics, try out facilitation strategies, and see how your choices can shape student thinking and talk.
- Guided practice helps you get ready.ArgCoach helps you recognize strengths and weaknesses in student arguments. It also lets you practice using facilitation strategies that prompt students to critically evaluate and refine their thinking.
