In instructional conversations, teachers focus on ideas that are relevant for students and have some educational meaning. Teachers are able to build on the students' ideas and guide the students to new levels of understanding, through their already existing background knowledge. It is a process by which the teacher learns as well as instructs. The teacher should be able to asses what the children are thinking and guide them through scaffolding into areas of higher …showed first 75 words of 408 total…

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