Rewiring Teacher Talk: A Playbook for Shifting from Teaching Monologue to Learning Dialogue stands on the shoulders of giants. It synthesises nearly a century of research on teaching and learning, extensive video-recorded lessons from schools across India, and more than two decades of conversations with teachers around the world about classroom practice. This playbook operates at the intersection of educational psychology, cognitive science, and behavioural economics. It...

Superior teacher talk is primarily about how you structure it, rather than just how long you talk or how fluent you sound. Teachers in the schools we currently partner with for our Classroom Audits structure their talk in three ways after the instructional coaching intervention: First, they limit teacher talk to deliberately short ± 3-minute chunks of coherent instruction rather than extended stretches of teaching monologues. Second, they initially sandwich these teacher...