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Conversations are important in your classroom. As a matter of fact, conversations with your students are very important. Conversations are important to understand your students’ needs, answer questions and to debate possibilities. Plus, knowledge and details are useless without the ability to communicate them. You might have a student that knows everything, but what good does it do for the class if that student stays quiet. It might seem like a good thing that the student stays quiet and just focuses on his/her work, but it’s a victory for the student and the whole class when they participate and show off what they learnt. It might seem like a classroom full of quiet students is bliss, but if the students are eager to learn and the classroom is quiet, the teacher should be worried. 

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Conversation is essential for good learning. Conversation draws students from their desk and gets them participating in the activity. It allows the student to use things learned in real time, ask questions and form opinions. Good conversation invokes spirited conversations, is fun and allows the students to gather their own thoughts and reply back in kind. But you have to be careful and make sure that conversations do not get out of hand. Students can sometimes get into topics that are not in line with the lesson or topic. 

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Good conversation is fun and it is fun when you can incorporate good conversation into your lesson plan. Are you looking for conversation starters or conversation tips? If so, head on over to www.jaimerichards.org. You will find many great conversation starters and conversation tips that will invoke a thought-provoking, life-enhancing conversation going.