[MOSAIC] Instructional Conversation Rating Scale

[Teresa Terry]

Instructional Conversations were part of a study that was concerned with providing best practices with students who were from the low socioeconomic, limited English student. As part of this study teachers and the researchers taped themselves and viewed them according to the IC scale.  By using IC in classrooms students used learned in a social context, using language as a tool for applying higher order thinking skills while going deeper in text.  
   
  Here are the links below where you can read at the source:
   
   www.ncela.gwu.edu/pubs/ncrcdsll/epr2.htm 
http://www.ncela.gwu.edu/pubs/ncrcdsll/epr4.htm
   


Joy <jwidmann at rocketmail.com> wrote:
  Teresa,
Is this rating scale something that an observer uses when evaluating a teacher?



Joy/NC/4
jwidmann at rocketmail.com
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