Leyte Normal University

College of Education
PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION UNIT
Paterno Street, Tacloban City

Name: Ralph Rexor M.Bantugan Section: BSEd 3-5 (Mathematics)

Subject: Profed_112: The Teaching Profession Schedule: MTh 1:00-2:30
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“Teacher Professional Development as a Means of Transforming Student Classroom Talk”
Klara Sedova*, Martin Sedlacek, Roman Svaricek
The study deals with examining the impact of a teacher development programme, focused
on the implementation of dialogic teaching practice. Dialogic teaching practice is a type of
participation in classroom discourse in which students are engaged, autonomous and cognitively
stimulated. In the research, a one-year action research teacher development programme was
conducted to eight Czech teachers in lower secondary schools. The video recordings made before
and after the programme were analyzed: the analysis showed a significant change in classroom
discourse and there had been an increase in the amount of student talk with reasoning. The
significant change is attributed by the changes in teacher communication behavior, and this is also
viewed as an important shift that has a key influence on students’ learning.
Teacher’s strategies and ways of imparting knowledge to students plays a vital role in
influencing students’ learning. Because of this, teachers should be well-knowledgeable in their
fields. They should also be well-trained in terms of teaching strategies in order to produce more
competitive individuals in the society. As future educator, I have learned that it would really be
great to put more emphasis on developing students’ power of talk with reasoning, stimulating and
extending their thinking, and advancing their learning and understanding rather than merely
focusing on students’ memorization skills. This may actually be made possible with the aid of
implementation of dialogic teaching in the classroom setting because base on the research result,
this teaching style enriches students’ argumentation.
Indeed, there is a great possibility of having a positive implication if dialogic teaching will
be practiced by the teachers of different schools. In addition, there will be a gradual increase of
academic competence. Students’ use of cognitive skills will be more developed. Dialogic teaching
style may actually contribute in having more globally competitive individuals in the society. This
may lead to more inventions and innovation because of having more developed creative mind.