Quality Talk

Quality Talk

A deliberate approach to discussion that transforms student engagement

Elevating Discourse, Empowering Minds

Regardless of your discipline, Quality Talk (QT) offers a student-driven, teacher-guided approach to small-group discussions, fostering critical thinking and deeper understanding of course material through collaborative dialogue.

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What is Quality Talk?

Quality Talk is a teacher-facilitated small-group discussion approach designed to enhance students’ critical-analytic thinking and reasoning about, around, and with text and content.

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Bring Quality Talk to your classroom!

Explore how to effectively implement Quality Talk in your classroom to enhance student engagement and critical thinking skills.

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“I think the different question types helped the interns to approach a text from different perspectives as they tried to come up with questions of different types. I hope I could gain more experiences engaging in Quality Talk as a participant.”

Math Teacher Educator