Understanding the Toolkit
The Talk-Rich Teaching Toolkit helps schools and practitioners use oracy more intentionally, particularly with learners from diverse linguistic, cultural and social backgrounds. Its five principles guide decisions about adapting classroom practice to develop oracy. Schools that piloted the Toolkit found that engaging with these principles was crucial to shaping their approach to oracy education with multilingual learners. The principles draw on published research and the practical insights of schools and teachers involved in the Toolkit’s development.
Read about our related research in the US and England here.
The principles
These research-informed principles underpin and drive all the activity described in this toolkit.
The role of school belonging
For the principles of talk-rich teaching to work well, schools and practitioners need first to consider how far their classrooms and whole school environment foster a sense of belonging.
The benefits of oracy
Working with the Talk-Rich Teaching Toolkit with learners from diverse backgrounds requires a positive and ‘additive’ view of oracy in the classroom