The Learning Cycle and Instructional Conversations

by: Paul C. Beisenherz, Marylou Dantonio, and Lon Richardson

Engaging students in instructional conversations creates opportunities for discovering and internalizing the critical attributes of a concept. In this article, the authors will identify questioning practices for the Exploration Phase of the Learning Cycle that focuses students’ thinking and engages them in instructional conversations about the concept, Bernoulli’s Principle. Instructional conversations are academic interactions among learners. They focus learning on the process of thinking while attending to the content under study (Dantonio and Beisenherz, 2001).

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Type Journal ArticlePub Date 1/1/2001Stock # ss01_024_04_34Volume 024Issue 04

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