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Learning Talk

A landmark publication from internationally acclaimed educator Joan Dalton

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Learning Talk: build understandings

The first in a ground breaking series on Learning Talk, this Book shows you how to use:

  • practical, step by step strategies
  • leading-edge professional learning material 
  • concrete examples and tools to build collective understanding and commitment to Learning Talk for the collaborative, learning-focused world in which we live.

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Learning talk: build the culture

The environment in which Learning Talk emerges and flourishes is consciously created. This book provides a wealth of practical strategies, concrete tools, templates and processes to help you:

  • create safe and rigorous conditions for learning and Learning Talk
  • make learning the core focus of professional conversations
  • understand the language of influence and different conversation intents

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Learning talk: build capabilities

To engage in skilful, learning-focused professional conversations you need to know what the essential capabilities are, and pay conscious attention to developing them. This ground-breaking book:

    • identifies the capabilities essential for powerful professional conversations
    • provides a comprehensive Capability Assessment Tool to assess your own and others’ capabilities and skills
    • shows you how to use the results to plan for action, and monitor ongoing learning for growth.

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A practical PDF resource: Capability Assessment Tool

The Capability Assessment Tool provides a cost effective resource to assess capabilities and skills, plan for, monitor and document the growth of your school or workplace team members over time. This practical PDF resource is designed for use in conjunction with the book, Learning Talk: build capabilities, which provides instructions for use and ways to use the Assessment Tool.

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The series

Develop your own and others’ skills in Learning Talk with this comprehensive series, to be progressively released during 2010-2012:


    1. Learning Talk: build understandings
    2. Learning Talk: build the culture
    3. Learning Talk: build capabilities
    4. Learning Talk: develop inquiry foundations
    5. Learning Talk: develop more complex capabilities
    6. Learning Talk: practise and embed the learning
    7. Learning Talk: use feedback effectively
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