Ask More, Tell Less: How to Structure Learning Conversations

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Title: Ask More, Tell Less: How to Structure Learning Conversations
Language: English
Authors: Jim Knight, John Campbell, Christian van Nieuwerburgh
Source: Learning Professional. 2025 46(1):26-29.
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Peer Reviewed: Y
Page Count: 4
Publication Date: 2025
Intended Audience: Practitioners
Document Type: Journal Articles
Reports - Descriptive
Descriptors: Interpersonal Communication, Communication Skills, Teacher Administrator Relationship, Coaching (Performance)
ISSN: 2476-194X
Abstract: An essential skill for school leaders and coaches is learning how to share ideas in a way that does not shut down teachers' voices, ideas, and thinking. The authors refer to this type of conversation as a partnering conversation. This article identifies two categories of conversations, telling and partnering, along with two kinds of partnering conversations, dialogical and facilitative. Coaches and leaders need to understand the defining characteristics of these approaches and when the different types of conversations should be used in leadership and coaching conversations.
Abstractor: ERIC
Entry Date: 2025
Access URL: https://learningforward.org/journal/learning-designs/ask-more-tell-less-how-to-structure-learning-conversations/
Accession Number: EJ1469439
Database: ERIC
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Abstract:An essential skill for school leaders and coaches is learning how to share ideas in a way that does not shut down teachers' voices, ideas, and thinking. The authors refer to this type of conversation as a partnering conversation. This article identifies two categories of conversations, telling and partnering, along with two kinds of partnering conversations, dialogical and facilitative. Coaches and leaders need to understand the defining characteristics of these approaches and when the different types of conversations should be used in leadership and coaching conversations.
ISSN:2476-194X