Understanding English Language Arts Teachers’ Listening Orientations in Middle School Gifted Classrooms
Cindy M. Gilson,
Micah N. Bruce-Davis,
Erica J. Lamm
Abstract:Within gifted education, discourse-based instructional methods, such as Socratic Seminars, are identified as strategies to support the development of gifted and advanced readers’ critical thinking skills. While research on dialogic discourse has centered on key components such as discourse patterns and the types of questions teachers ask, the unique nature of teachers’ listening has a limited research base. In this qualitative study, we examined five teachers’ perceptions, focusing on one teacher as an illustr… Show more
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