Test Higher! Newsletter December 2005 TELLBACKS HELP WRITING Speaking helps the learning process. In traditional classrooms half the students speak less than 20 seconds in each period. Recorded Classrooms change priorities with tellbacks. Students practice speaking without competition from students or teachers 12 minutes each period. In 500 periods students speak 100 hours. Tellbacks rapidly rehearse the content students will write later. The process organizes and integrates information at high speeds. The learning environment remains non-competitive and non-critical because partners help each other.

Teachers listen to each student tellback several times per week. They personally evaluate each student. The interaction between teachers and individual students controls the classroom. Silence may be golden but tellbacks help students succeed in school. ----------------------------------- Published by ACCELERATED SCHOOLS 2160 S. Cook St. Denver, CO 80210 USA (303) 758-2003 1-800-SCHOOL3 info@acceleratedschools.org www.test333.com www.recordedclasses.com www.literacyfree.com www.picturesfree.org www.free-books.org www.speedlibrary.com Please forward this letter to your friends and colleagues. Thank you! Click here to be removed from our mailing list.