Note A collection of 24 video clips from a 2002-7 dialogic teaching development project involving 40 primary schools in the north of England. The clips, indexed and annotated, exemplify different kinds of classroom talk and were collected to encourage professional study, discussion and analysis, not as examples of so-called ‘best practice’. Some of the visual quality has been lost in transfer to YouTube but the sound quality is unaffected. ×

Mainly rote

1. Geography, Year 2, 27 pupils

2. Mathematics, Year 6, 24 pupils

Mainly recitation

3. Science, Year 6, 22 pupils

4. Religious education, Years 3 & 4, 27 pupils

5. English / PSHE, Year 4, 19 pupils

Instruction and exposition

6. English, Year 6, 30 pupils

7. English/PSHE, Year 4, 19 pupils

8. PSHE/Citizenship, Years 5 & 6, 22 pupils

Discussion: pupils in pairs

9. English, Reception, 15 pupils

10. English, Years 4, 5 & 6, 23 pupils

Small group discussion, pupil-led

11. Geography, Year 2, 27 pupils

12. English, Year 6, 30 pupils

Small group discussion, teacher-led

13. Citizenship, Years 5 & 6, 24 pupils

14. English, Years 4, 5 & 6, 23 pupils

15. English, Years 4, 5 & 6, 23 pupils

Whole class discussion, teacher-led

16. English, Reception, 15 pupils

17. Citizenship, Years 5 & 6, 24 pupils

Teacher-pupil dialogue in a whole-class context

18. Mathematics, Year 6, 26 pupils

21. Citizenship, Years 5 & 6, 24 pupils

19. PSHCE, Years 5 & 6, 22 pupils

20. English, Years 4, 5 & 6, 23 pupils

Talking about talk

22. Year 6, after a geography lesson

23. Year 6, after an English lesson

24. Year 6, pupil reflections