AVID Strategy of the Month - Chalk Talk

Okay, hi, my name is Mackenzie Lucas. And I'm Noah and we're here to talk about the chalk talk strategy. Chalk talk is an avid activity that uses all 5 wicker components and allows avid students to explore a question without talking. It can be done in large group using guy race board or a smaller groups as a chart paper and markers. Here's mister rose setting up a chalk talk. Okay, so in the past, what we've done is our chalk talk, right? Okay, so we've already been through this before, what I need you to do is to clear off everything off your desk, except for that piece of paper about how you should treat the land. And a big large sheet of paper that I gave you. You all need a different color writing you title, you're all gonna sign your name in the corner, just like we've done in the past. One of the key components of the chalk talk is that there is no talking while the activity is going on. The only communication that should be going on is writing and drawing on the paper. Here is a mister la rose starting our classes chalk talk. When I'm saying you talk with your groupmates, this is called chalk talk, anything you want to say to them, you write down on that piece of paper. They've got, you've got to write it down. They've got to read the question. Then they can answer that question on the piece of paper by writing back to the formative countdown, three, two, one, answer that question, please. Well, chalk talk is going on. There are a number of ways that students can participate. They can respond to the main question, ask additional questions respond to questions asked by other draw lines to connect thoughts, draw a picture representations of answers to the question and more. The point is for them to have a conversation that is recorded on the paper. The teacher also plays a role in the conversations without talking, he posts additional questions or thoughts on the conversations that are happening around the room. As you see mister larose doing, he can contribute to the chalk talk or redirect it in another direction by writing on the paper or board. It is important to remember that there will be some downtime during the chalk talk students are reading there what their peers are writing or reflecting upon the next contribution to the conversation. This is another area where the teacher can help or bring up another point for consideration or adding other questions for the group to answer. At the end, it is important to have some type of wrap up or reflection. This can be done by having each group briefly share with the class what they talked about while a teacher clarifies similarities and differences in the conversation. So this can do real reflections about what they learned during the activity among other activities. It's just another average strategy as part of its culture reflection. Let's check it out. I've given you a couple of extra minutes to kind of come up with final answer on that piece of paper. And we kind of give you the direction of, this is how the Native Americans and how the settlers were having issues and solving their problems without using land. I'm going to ask you not really to talk about this with your group right now, but I want you to take out a piece of paper. I know you're not using the back of page 30 in your solutions manual. So I want you to do a three, two, one. I want you to write three comments about your group discussion. Okay, three general comments. What did you say or what did somebody else say in your group? They kind of brain truth for you that you had thought about for me. The two is two ways that you can do a better job of conserving our natural resources. So when you leave school today, you go home. What are two ways that you can do a better job of conserving our natural resources and one thing, one question you still have about how to treat the land. What is one question that you still have that still kind of bugging you? Now that we've taken this from the 1860s, through 1895, very wanted to the future to our present time, what's one question you still have? Keep in mind the example you just watched was from my asian class, chalk talking views with any other curriculum. some of these examples of chalk talk activities from other subject areas. I like chalk talk, 'cause I'm learning for other people's point of views. I like chalk talk because you don't have to raise your hand and you don't have to wait to put out your thoughts and your discussing without being interrupted.