✨ Building Routines: Turn & Talk ✨ Today, I introduced Turn and Talk to my 5th graders. It’s a work in progress, but this is a routine we do pretty much every day—multiple times a day. 🧠 The goal? To take the guesswork out of how students should handle themselves in these situations. By establishing solid routines, we reduce anxiety about what to do in these situations. This also lowers the cognitive load, as students don’t have to try to figure out who to talk to or how to get started when you

From @thebesteducator on IG: 🎓📚 I realized mid-lesson that I never got the chance to teach one of my classes the routine for “Turn and Talks.” 🤦🏾OOPS! 🌭 I get a lot of questions about establishing routines, so I thought I’d share “how the sausage gets made” with this one. 🧠💡 🔄 Turn & Talk Tips! 🔀🗣️ For an effective Turn & Talk, it’s helpful to have a standardized “in-cue” and “out-cue.” 👉🏾Mine start with, “Teach! Okay!” from Whole Brain Teaching. 🎤 👉🏾My out-cue is something like: