ABSTRACT
This chapter explores some ideas about how to support and develop pupils in their ability to articulate their thinking about their own thinking and learning. The focus is on the kind of dialogue that can be facilitated in a classroom: between teacher and pupils, pupils and their peers, and in monologues through the peer learning interactions. Learning conversations help us to articulate what we know about how we learn. The chapter explores the benefits of learning conversations through the following headings like: looking for opportunities, structuring the reflections, sharing the reflections, learning and generally responding to opportunities. It also deals with opportunities. In a typical primary school there is so much to get through in a day. Nevertheless there are still opportunities to get everyone talking explicitly about how they learn. The important thing is trying to have the learning conversations little and often. We should be looking for opportunities.
