EDRG 3344 T/R Talking in the Classroom

What would a classroom be without talking? Pretty much a prison and your kids will sit there twiddling their thumbs with the information you are spouting out goes in one ear and out the other. Talking is very important and conducive to the learning experiences of every child and teenagers. Talking improves the social abilities of every student in the classroom. This will enhance their abilities later in life by talking to people they don't know or by being able to converse with people they work with or they work for. Talking also increases language proficiency especially with younger children. With older students talking helps increase their vocabulary as well as being able to talk in a more academic and professional manner that helps once they have a job. When students are given something to talk about it makes them think and allows them to make new connections between common topics and strengthen old connections between topics. This increases their knowledge base which helps later in life because you never know when you might need the information. When students have to explain something in their words they have to reason their way through it and are more likely to remember it than if you told them how to do it. Working through math problems out loud not only helps the student but those around them because it might be in terms that they understand better. Doing group work allows students to learn from their fellow students and get new perspectives that they might not normally have gotten. They learn more about the students around them and gain new information about different cultures and experiences that others have had. I personally like doing group work because I see new ways of looking at things through the eyes of someone else and I also learn best by talking things out or explaining something to someone else. I intend to have groups and allow talking in my classroom once I begin to teach. It might get out of hand every once in a while but the benefits outweigh the disadvantages.