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"He is typically Karan Johar, who will first say no, but then (he) picks up really fast. You should see his spins, they are too professional and fantastic," the 39-year-old said here during the shoot of the promo of dance reality show "Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa".
"He keeps saying that he cannot dance, but he is a very good dancer," said Remo.
The upcoming season of the dance reality show will once again see Remo, Karan and Bollywood's dancing diva Madhuri Dixit, on the judges' chair. The trio recently shot together for a promo of the show. and they can be seen dancing in it.
Karan admits he could only do it as it was shot in bits. "Steps were not complicated, so it didn't take much time for me to learn them. We do it in cuts, so it's not such a big problem. But if I had to do the whole set piece together, then it would have been difficult for me," Karan said while shooting for it.
The trio have been judging the dance reality show since 2010 and this will be their third appearance together.
TV actor Gurmeet Choudhary had won the fifth season, which ended in September 2012.
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At inception, the initiative like the fledgling startups it was trying to support was rough and ready - some desks and chairs, a few bean bags, a coffee machine, a microwave and broadband.
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The nation's elementary schools are overrun by small-minded and unreasonable people, prone to hysterics, who can't distinguish between make-believe and reality. They are called school administrators.
In the wake of the Newtown, Conn., massacre, they have been punishing little children for making gun-like gestures with their fingers and other harmless horseplay. The people who run our schools must have been too busy brushing up on their "zero tolerance" policies to notice that Newtown was perpetrated with an AR-15, not with a toy or with a finger. We expect 5-year-olds to be childish. What's the excuse for the people running our schools?
Five-year-old Joseph Cruz brandished a gun made out of Legos in his day-care program while, in the words of the Barnstable Public School District in Hyannis, Mass., "simulating the sound of gunfire." For a layman, that's called saying "pow." Cruz got a stiff warning for "using daycare toys inappropriately."
A 5-year-old girl was suspended from kindergarten at Mount Carmel Area Elementary School in Northumberland County, Pa., after "threatening" to shoot classmates with her pink Hello Kitty gun that fires soapy bubbles. A mandatory psychological evaluation found, according to a news report, "that the girl did not represent any threat to others." Whew.
White Marsh Elementary in Maryland suspended two first-graders for playing cops and robbers on the playground. In true 21st-century fashion, the school board said it was forbidden from giving out more information "due to confidentially requirements under the Federal Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)."
An 8-year-old in Prince William County, Va., was suspended for firing back with an imaginary gun after a friend shot him with an imaginary bow and arrow. Evidently, nothing happened to the other kid. This points to a disturbing "bow and arrow" loophole that could conceivably accommodate everything from imaginary poison darts to make-believe medieval siege weapons.
The Al Capone of the zero-tolerance offenders is the daring second-grader in Anne Arundel County, Md., who chewed his strawberry breakfast pastry into the shape of a gun and then brazenly pointed it at a classmate. Park Elementary school suspended him for two days.
Who defends this foolish lack of proportion? The American Association of School Administrators. Its executive director, Dan Domenech, told USA Today: "Parents have to be aware that talking about guns or using your fingers to point like a gun is no longer tolerable or prudent." Why, pray tell? School shooters tend to be disturbed young men. In no case has a shooter ever been an adorable 5-year-old child.
In the grips of a strange mania, school administrators believe that any symbolic representation of a gun, no matter how innocent, is all but indistinguishable from a real gun. This is not a mistake that gun owners make. The fake-finger gun doesn't do much for the average sportsman. It can't bring down a deer, and doesn't exactly light up the gun range.
No matter. We don't have common sense; we have rules. We don't have judgment; we have bureaucratic procedure. Too often, our grown-ups are the ones desperately in need of adult supervision.
Rich Lowry is editor of the National Review, a magazine founded by William F. Buckley Jr., featuring conservative commentary on American politics.


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August 16th, 2006 by Juha-Matti, Filed under: Commentary, Microsoft, Web
Mr. Aviv Raff reports at Moore's blog that Orphan Objects bug in Internet Explorer, MoBB #30, was silently fixed with the latest MSIE Cumulative Security Update MS06-042.
More details available at Raff's own blog entry.
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Stats are here (and which ones ND choose to put in for the next game remains to be seen) but I have a suggestion from one of my friends (GHENGISGRIMES..naming him to give credit, where credit is due):
Retain total kills in the stats but also include the stats for Power kills and Blindfire kills. So for those experienced players that use Blindfire a lot or the Power Weapon spammers, it is clear the proportion of their kill total is due to these two tactics. I suspect that for the majority of players who care only about KDR, this will not faze them in the least but…
For some, this might begin to take some of the shine off boosting stats or at the very least, you'd immediately be able to tell if they rely heavily on either of these tactics – which may be more of a disincentive than the stats themselves. If I know 50% of a certain player's kills are from blindfire, then I'll be sure to keep my distance from them. And if this seems unfair, the LACK OF blindfire and power kills tells you something about that player's gaming style as well.
PLUS…this will require no game code changes from ND and will allow them to retain the "new player accessibility" of blindfire that they deem so important.
I doubt Naughty Dog will learn their lesson. They brought a lot of stuff from UC2 to UC3 that many hated and even made some of them worse than they were before. KDR and WLR stats shouldn't be tracked at all, period. It just leads to people taking the game way too seriously which is stupid since games should be about having fun. Some of the best and most competitive games ever like SOF2 didn't have any official leaderboards or stat pages and it certainly didn't hurt them. Bad or average players shouldn't have to be reminded how much they suck and those who want to play competitively can have their stats from clan matches recorded by a 3rd party (or you can have a ranked mode where stats are recorded).
To keep things interesting for veterans you can have a lot of badges like Killzone 3 have that are rewarded when you get a certain number of kills with different weapons or when you've played a certain number of matches in the various modes. We almost had something like this in UC3 but the mission system was just poorly designed IMO.
Look, I have ran into the guy a bunch of times and at one point I gave a crap about it but now who cares?
I really think hes trying to prove a point about how broken the stat system on the game is.
With out actually saying his name, his psn id is one cartoon\comic book villain. If this is who you are referring too.
Honestly if you really want to get him, and get him worse than ND can.
You have to hit him where it hurts, give him the deaths.
Now here is the trick, ---- play with a party of five. Don't let him know your on to him, don't say anything.
After you kill him say like 2 times, have your entire party sign out.
His deaths will be immediately recorded on his stats.
I use to do it to stat fakers before the patch.
I all reality if you really want all this fixed just do what battle field does, let players reset their stats any time they want.
It works over there just fine. No one ever really calls some one out on their kdr. If anything its more so how many objective points.
Since KDR means squat over there everyone is focused on stats that require you to play the objective. Hence PTFO.
I have a 4.21 K/D on my main account but my W/L is only around 1.7. I've found that certain modes like Plunder can be very frustrating to play solo and can easily bring your W/L down. I'd often run into full parties there while my own teammates were camping with a Dragon Sniper and still went 3-17.
If you're almost always playing solo like me then a W/L around 2.0 is very good. There are just going to be so many matches where you won't be able to win even if you're the best player in the world simply because the teams are so unbalanced. I've played some matches where it was basically a race between me and one single good player on the other team to kill all the splitscreen noobs that were in the match. You know it's a bad game when you go 40-2 and still lose because the other guy went 45-3.
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Screw that. I have positive KDR and negative WLR.
Or are they both negative? Hell, I don't know. What I know is that if I have both on negative it would be AWESOME.
I can act like a complete moron and still get excused!
I thought it was easy to have a 1:1 ratio.


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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The Clippers waived forward Lou Amundson on Saturday, leaving their roster at 14 players going into next week's season opener.
Amundson averaged 1.0 points and 3.0 rebounds in seven preseason games, including one start.
He has appeared in 327 career games for Philadelphia, Utah, Phoenix, Golden State, Indiana, Minnesota, Chicago and New Orleans. He ended last season with the Hornets, averaging 2.4 points and 3.2 rebounds.
The Clippers open the season Tuesday night in a designated road game against the Lakers.
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Noone replied, but since I saw quite a few people viewed my post, I thought I would post what I came up with - I molded chocolate and secured it to the side of the cake, then cut a hole in the fondant and blended it on to the base of the chocolate pieces. Came out great. (This was for the Augusta Ghost Trolley Tour.)


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Ingredients1/2 cup chopped onion
1/4 cup chopped celery
1/2 cup chopped fresh mushrooms
3 tbsp butter
2 cups soft breadcrumbs
1 tsp salt
1/8 tsp pepper
Pinch of dried tarragon
Pinch of dried rosemary
2 lb haddock fillets
Juice of one lemon
3-4 sliced tomatoes
PreparationPreheat oven to 375 degrees
Using a large saucepan, saute about 5 minutes chopped onion, celery and mushrooms in 3 tbsp butter.
Stir into the sauteed vegetables, breadcrumbs, salt, pepper, taragon and rosemary
Arrange haddock fillets in a layer on a large shallow greased baking dish.
Sprinkle the fish with lemon juice
Spread the dressing over the fish and cover with sliced tomatoes.
Bake, uncovered, 35-40 minutes.
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main ingredients: Fish
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Wed, Apr 04, 2007
The National Air Traffic Controllers Association states a
worsening air traffic controller staffing crisis at major tower and
radar control facilities in Southern California is shrinking the
margin of safety to dangerously low levels, due to tired
controllers forced to work overtime and even six-day work
The union also tells ANN a high number of retirement-eligible
controllers are either leaving -- or are about to leave -- due to
the Federal Aviation Administration's imposed work rules and
reduced pay bands, and a high number of new hires that are taxing
the FAA's ability to train them efficiently and successfully in
some of the world's busiest and most demanding airspace.
Below is a rundown of the situation at many of the busiest FAA
facilities in Southern California:
LOS ANGELES TOWER (LAX): The FAA has only 35
certified controllers on staff, 10 of which are eligible to retire
this year. Four others have been selected to other facilities and
are scheduled to leave soon. The FAA says it will hire nine
trainees, but even if six certify by this time next year -- an
accurate predictor based on past training failure rates -- LAX
Tower staffing could be as low as 27 certified controllers. "A
number that low would cause massive delays, no matter how much the
FAA forces controllers to work overtime," said Mike Foote, the LAX
facility representative for the National Air Traffic Controllers
Historically at LAX, low staffing equals higher numbers of
runway incursions and controller errors. The year 2000 saw a
frightening 25 combined runway incursions and surface incidents. At
the time, the tower had only 34 certified controllers. In 2004, LAX
was fully staffed with 47 controllers and the combined total of
runway incursions and surface incidents dropped to nine.
"The FAA has given numbers for shifts that it believes is
required to maintain safety," Foote said. "Currently, LAX Tower,
even using overtime, never has the required numbers present on
these shifts."
(TRACON): The San Diego-based facility is currently
staffed with only 187 certified controllers, plus 33 trainees who
are mostly in the early stages of their on-the-job training
process. By Oct. 1, the FAA says 30 more new hires will arrive. But
56 of the fully certified controllers are eligible to retire by
year's end, and it is highly unlikely that enough of the new
hires will successfully complete the incredibly demanding training
process at the nation's busiest TRACON to come close to
keeping up with the rate of attrition.
Making matters worse, says SoCal TRACON NATCA Facility
Representative Tony Vella, mandatory overtime is just now starting
in the facility, which is likely to drive up the already high
number of operational errors (seven) this year due to rising
fatigue levels. Operational errors are instances when two planes
get closer than FAA rules allow for safe separation.
Vella said there is a direct correlation between staffing and
errors and pointed to facts from the past few years. In fiscal year
2002, with 270 controllers, the facility had five errors. In FY
2006, with staffing having dropped to a low of 200 controllers, the
facility had 21 errors.
The Palmdale, CA facility, one of 20 en route centers in the
continental United States, continues on a pace to have the most
operational errors of any center this fiscal year. "We are
averaging one operational error per week," said ZLA NATCA Facility
Representative Garth Koleszar. "I believe we are currently second
in the country in total en route errors. Our errors increased from
11 to 19 for the first four months of the fiscal year versus last
year. This is an increase of over 70% for the same time period. Our
people are tired. They consistently are forced to work two hours on
position, a goal the agency has stated it tries to achieve because
of safety."
Fatigue is a big issue, Koleszar said. "Nearly 30 percent of our
controllers are trainees and not fully certified," he said. "That
high number of on-the-job-trainees is putting added pressure on the
limited number of veteran controllers doing the training and
increasing their fatigue."
Koleszar said the continued attrition of experienced, seasoned
controllers is placing the system in jeopardy. "Those seasoned
controllers will continue to leave because they have no incentive
to stay," he added. "By the FAA's own estimate, we will lose
nearly 100 controllers by 2010 due to retirements alone.
Unfortunately, I don't see the Agency taking any steps to properly
address the issue in any way that would have an impact on the
increasing numbers of errors we are having."
LONG BEACH TOWER: Every controller on staff is
now scheduled for mandatory overtime, resulting in six-day weeks
and 10-hour days and reducing the margin of safety by forcing tired
controllers to do more work. "One regular day off a week, with two
or three days a week of scheduled 10-hour days does not give us
enough rest," Long Beach NATCA Facility Representative Pat Hunt
"With the FAA instituting new rules on TIPH (taxi into position
and hold for departing flights) and all the closures due to
construction going on for the next three-to-four years, we do not
have the required staffing even with six-day weeks and 10-hour
days," Hunt said. TIPH is a procedure used by controllers to safely
and efficiently move traffic on the airport surface and keep the
system moving but the FAA has mandated that staffing must be at a
sufficiently high level in order for controllers to use the
procedure. But that is not the case at Long Beach and without TIPH,
the airport's efficiency -- and margin of safety -- will
SANTA ANA JOHN WAYNE AIRPORT (SNA): Of the 26
controllers on staff (20 are fully certified), 12 are eligible to
retire. In addition, three supervisors are set to retire, which
will mean their replacements are likely to come from the certified
controller ranks, reducing staffing even further. Currently, the
FAA managers at the facility are short-staffing certain shifts due
to the low numbers but there have also been a few weeks where the
FAA has forced controllers to work six-day weeks.
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The mystery of the Spectrobes deepens in this intergalactic Disney sequel. Beyond the Portals continues the adventure that began in Spectrobes. But now Nanairo Planetary Patrol officers Rallen and Jeena are facing a new threat. The team already managed to stop one invasion by the alien species Krawl. Now the Krawl have a new leader, a new army, and a new plan of attack. Find and evolve Spectrobes to prevent this evil from taking over. This time, you can play as both Rallen and Jeena, solving puzzles with the specific skills of each officer. There's a new online battle mode, a link to Disney's Game online community, and more.
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Best game ever. It is easy to get fossils money minerals true. But as most people think that is the biggest thing. Well ITS NOT. All it might do is make the game a tad easier. Sure it will take away some challenge SOME. But there is a bunch more to it. I haven't yet beat the game but the bosses are...more
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SHI International
SHI International Account Executive Interview Questions
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Interview Experience
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Interviews for Top Jobs at SHI International
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- Inside Account Executive (6)
- Inside Account Manager (5)
- Inside Sales Account Manager (3)
- Software Developer (1)
- Business Development Manager (1)
- Account Executive Public Sector (1)
- Account Manager (1)
- Accounts Receivable (1)
- Logistician (1)
- Systems Architect (1)
- Inside Sales Representative (1)
- Intern (1)
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Account Executive Interview
I applied through other source. The process took 1+ week – interviewed at SHI International in March 2010.
Lengthy 3-4 step interview process. First phone screened by HR, phone screen by DM, meet and screened by local team, face to face interview with DM then face to face with Regional Sales Director.
- I was asked to be critical of myself regarding a large opportunity that I had lost at a previous position. Answer Question
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Account Executive InterviewApplication Details
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks – interviewed at SHI International.Interview Details
I met with the District manager first at an off-site location. This seems to be common practice for SHI. I had interview #2 at the office and met the rest of the team. Interview #3 was a phone interview with the head of HR and the final interview was with the Director of Sales. I also submitted to a background check.Interview Questions
No OfferPositive ExperienceAverage Interview
- What is the top quality that you possess that separates you from the other candidates? And your second quality? Be prepared for the follow-up on questions. Most people only prepare for their top quality or single reason, but they definitely go deeper than that. Answer Question
Account Executive InterviewApplication Details
I applied in-person. The process took 2 weeks – interviewed at SHI International in September 2012.Interview Details
Process is inconsistent. Generally speaking, candidates will meet with the Sales Manager, and then the Director of Sales. Sometimes there is a peer interview. For the most part, SHI is looking for hunters who understand the IT market (Microsoft/nonMicrosoft software/datacenter solutions/commodity hardware). Experience in the field is a nice to have, but certainly not mandatory. Young, enthusiastic, hungry, coin-operated candidates will certainly have an advantage.Interview Questions
Negotiation DetailsUnwavering - there is little room to negotiate.Accepted OfferNeutral ExperienceEasy Interview
- Familiarity with the VAR community, understanding of competitive landscape. Answer Question
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I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2+ weeks – interviewed at SHI International in April 2012.Interview Details
Interview process was very straight forward. I ultimately was very unimpressed with the offer in terms of compensation and was turned off by the junior level HR person who made 5-6 mistakes with the offer letter.Interview Questions
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Compensation poor, awful HR communication skillsDeclined OfferNegative ExperienceEasy Interview
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The process took 4+ weeks – interviewed at SHI International.Interview Details
The hiring process is managed through the company HQ in New Jersey, but the interviews are handled by the local sales manager, and regional directors. In my experience, the interview process was pretty straight forward, there is a lot of value placed on previous sales experience, and on cultivating long standing executive level relationships.Interview Questions
Negotiation DetailsFor account executives, there in not much room for negotiating on the base salary. There is a very aggressive commission structure, and you have an opportunity to make as much money as you want, but it will be heavily weighted to commissions rather than base salary.Accepted Offer
- The most challenging aspect of the interview was the wide range of products that SHI sells. Depending on pervious experience the line of questioning can go just about anywhere. You're better off admitting that you don't have experience around a certain technology, but you're eager to learn, rather than trying to fake it, or study up for the interview process. Answer Question
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I applied through college or university – interviewed at SHI International.Interview Details
Very laid back, but also very direct with questions.Interview Questions
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- Why should we hire you? Answer Question
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The Loft at the Linuthanian Club is the perfect location for this show as its small and intimate. The boys had the whole room roaring with laughter and whilst I may not have found all the jokes funny, those of you who love slapstick comedy will leave the show more than fulfilled. Be warned, the show is dripping in sexual connotations and offensive language. If you can leave the kids at home then be sure to check it out, as these comedians will not disappoint. Aunty Donna and the fax machine shop is playing until the 13th of October, for session times and ticketing information, visit melbournefringe.com.au.


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Duh, im at votech and im like really bored out of my mind. I saw my baby last nite but i got sick and ended up layin at the kitchen table cuz i wanted to die. I hate chocolate. It can all burn in hell. But anyways, he was super sweet and he rubbed my belly and was massaging my temples so my headache would go away...yes well I love him. But anyways I gotta go before i get busted for being online, Lata!
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The Vampire Diaries Picture Preview: "The New Deal"by Matt Richenthal at . Comments
Look out, Mystic Falls. Klaus is on the warpath.
That's our main takeaway from the following set of photos, all courtesy of the January 5 return episode, "The New Deal." That, and this: Jeremy is itching for some action.
Browse through the pictures below to get an early glimpse at scenes from next week's installment, including Klaus confronting both Elena and Damon; those two seeming getting closer to one another - as teased by Julie Plec in this interview - and Jeremy taking aim with a crossbow...
Matt Richenthal is the Editor in Chief of TV Fanatic. Follow him on Twitter and on Google+.Tags: The Vampire Diaries, Spoilers
I agree with Britt and Stranger. All the negativity is depressing. Constructive criticism is one thing, but continually bashing a show every day that you still watch is obsessive.
I agree with Britt. Caroline is my favourite character, but just because she doesn't appear to be in the next episode from the photos, doesn't mean TVD isn't worth watching. Caroline isn't even in the main storyline anyway, and everyone else plays great characters.
I can't wait to see more of Klaus! But more delena?? Seriously? :(
I htink you mean "I am" not "We're" since you so far seem to be in minority :)
Bored Now, shut the fuck up. We're sick of your bitching.
Klaus will definitely do whatever it takes to get his familyy back from stefan. Even if it means hurting everyone!!!
Go get them Nick.Wait,i just thought about something,damon has never been compelled by an original,right?He better be careful,coz these time around he might not wanna mess with klaus.Can't wait.
More forced DE stuff? Grreat...not. LOL AT Jeremy. Well this show has jumped the shark now.
Alaric seems to have gotten over Jenna awfully fast...oh wait, who's jenna? right, no one. show forgot she existed. Otherwise too much Miss Cardboard Elena Swan in those screenshots to get excited about anything. I guess TVD will premiere WEEK after this for me since I will skip this one. Why? This has no caroline.


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Using Instructional Conversation (page 3)
Pedagogy Standard V
Teaching Through Conversation
Engage students in dialogue, especially instructional conversation (IC).
Classroom Application Indicators
The teacher
- Performs IC routinely within an instructional frame.
- Guides students to full participation in IC.
- Achieves academic outcomes in IC.
The premier form of teaching assistance is dialogue. In dialogue, ideas are formed, expressed, and exchanged, through both speech and writing. Dialogue often rises to abstract levels. Even common topics are discussed in thoughtful ways in dialogue. The fifth pedagogy standard emphasizes teaching with dialogue using IC.
Teaching through dialogue is as old as and probably older than Socrates, the ancient Greek who introduced it. A form of dialogue, IC is relatively new to modern classroom teaching. Very few students are granted the privilege of sustained conversation on academic topics with their teachers on a regular basis. The major benefit of the five pedagogy standards is that they address this persistent inequity by guiding teachers to design instruction to support the regular use of IC with every student.
IC inserts dialogue, a unique and essential form of teaching assistance, into the five-pedagogy-standards system. The routine use of IC guarantees that regular, privileged, and sustained interaction time with a teacher occurs for all students. The chapter's opening excerpt presents a slice of an IC led by a teacher working with English language learners (ELLs). The students experience instruction through dialogue by participating in it. Their comments demonstrate their need for IC's language models, language production opportunities, and conceptual learning assistance. Regularly scheduled IC within an instructional frame ensures that all students, regardless of ability or background, participate in the premier teaching strategy just as the ELL students do in the excerpt quoted.
IC has been demonstrated to be an effective intervention for improving reading comprehension for all students, but particularly ELLs. Scientifically based findings indicate that its use in combination with other approaches, such as literature logs, has a positive effect on ELLs' comprehension (U.S Department of Education, 2006; Saunders, 1999; Saunders and Goldenbert, 1999a, 1999b). In IC, teachers' dialogue with students is characterized by responsive assistance. In other words, the teacher guides students to acquire new information on the basis of what they already know. In dialogue about prior knowledge, teachers identify a hook in students' knowledge to which they can connect new information. If students' knowledge is absent or limited, the teacher provides a joint productive activity (JPA) for building common knowledge. For example, students may write a story together or participate in another activity that shows what they know and builds their understanding about a topic. IC is responsive assistance when dialogue is contextualized in students' experience and when it challenges students' thinking to reach new levels. At the same time, dialogue develops students' language and literacy and deepens content understanding. After participating in IC, students apply their new knowledge and ideas in a follow-up activity.
At its most powerful, IC appears as animated conversation on academic topics among students and teacher. In fact, IC has unique features. It is at once assessment and assistance. Students' participation reveals their language and thinking proficiencies, which teachers can assist in improving. Assessment in IC is a basis for teachers to assist students specifically and provide corrective feedback. It is at once conversation and instruction. Conversation includes everyone in the group and accepts their preferred speech forms, which may differ from the language of instruction. Instruction brings meaning making and coherence to teaching and learning goals. IC is at once pedagogy and teaching because it is a process of and approach to teaching that conveys any content. ICs are opportunities for teachers to help students examine their own knowledge and experience, and make connections to new knowledge.
IC is the culmination of the five pedagogy standards. As an integration of pedagogy and teaching, IC is supported by the standards. The first standard lays the classroom foundations for teaching with IC, and the succeeding standards build on that foundation. The fifth standard rests on the implementation of the first four.
Inidcator 1: The Teacher Performs IC Routinely Within an Instrucational Frame
IC occurs in small groups of preferably no fewer than three and no more than seven students. The teacher engages the students in conversation about text, related personal experiences, knowledge of themes, and key concepts in order to accomplish lesson goals. The conversation builds on students' participation and succeeds on the basis of their production of language and understanding that meet the teaching goal of the particular IC lesson. The teacher's IC goal may be modified as a conversation develops, depending on what students say. This unique feature of IC emphasizes its responsive format and its student-centered process. On the basis of students' responses, the teacher may decide to reset the goal of a lesson at a lower or higher level that students can easily achieve, or the teacher may strive for a more complex level of understanding that students are ready to grasp.
IC is a JPA of teacher and students. IC products are often the charted progress of the IC. Teachers may diagram the course of an IC using a structured overview or other semantic diagram, such as a web, sequence, logic tracker, or list. In the upper grades, teachers may have students plot the course of an IC as it develops. In content areas, problem solving or other applications of the concepts have been products. The following diagram lists the main features of K–8 IC, including its product—new knowledge. As might be expected, half of the features are those of conversation and the other half are those of instruction. The six separate features integrate into IC.
The diagram shows that the IC features for instruction and conversation work together at each level by combining the advantages of direct teaching with those of academic dialogue or conversation to benefit knowledge expansion and development. The first level, which establishes a clear goal and includes everyone, is the most divergent. The IC goal of instruction and the inclusiveness of conversation together produce interaction that neither a goal-oriented nor unstructured (free-for-all) conversation alone can produce. At the second level, the teacher assesses students' prior knowledge. The teacher's response encourages participation and identifies connections between what students know and the unknown. Through assistance, at the third level, the teacher ensures that students make the connection to new knowledge. The teacher also balances the students' participation. Importantly, the teacher's participation is less than the students' participation levels. In IC, students converse at rates equal to or greater than the teacher's rate. Together the features of instruction and conversation develop the conversation to accomplish the lesson goal.
For teachers to assess during IC, they must encourage students to produce language while respecting students' reticence. Teachers encourage students to speak by asking interesting or easy questions that tap feelings as well as knowledge. Even when a teacher nudges a reticent student into conversation, the student may not fully participate. It may take time for a student to learn conversation conventions and language for academic conversation, especially if the student is linguistically or culturally different from the class average. Because learning in IC relies on student participation, students' speaking preferences and conventions are respected. A silent student is not an ignored student but rather spurs the teacher to understand more about students' participation patterns and preferences. Teachers use responsive questioning and comments to increase assessment and to provide assistance. An IC goal is to balance participation across all students.
As a JPA (discussed in Chapter 1), IC is not strictly prescribed or pre-scripted but reflects a plan with a clear academic goal. IC is thoughtful and accountable conversation about content topics. Planning usually anticipates students' contributions of prior and personal knowledge. Teachers prepare questions that they will use to introduce material, to transition from experience to text, and to ensure understanding. The questions might also anticipate surprise contributions and teacher responses. The IC product is the documentation of teacher and students working together.
A teacher begins IC by simply asking students to talk about a selected activity; text; or experience from their point of view, that is, on the basis of their knowledge from home, community, or school. The teacher encourages every student to talk and share experiences that relate to a text and to the concepts the teacher plans to develop in the IC. Students' preferred language forms and styles are accepted, and teacher responds and models appropriate language forms. Students can exercise new vocabulary and concepts, and the teacher assesses their increasing grasp of these. Students share their knowledge and relate it to new information they must acquire. IC reveals gaps in understanding that teachers can assist students to close. This approach dilutes the ''sage on the stage'' form of instruction and emphasizes the inclusive, informal conversational feature of IC.
IC is planned. It occurs about text, a stimulus, or a learning task and elicits students' language expression. IC features dialogue that is energetic and accomplishes a teaching goal. The goal can be expressed in terms of a product. IC usually begins with discussion of prior knowledge that encourages students' participation for the purpose of scaffolding their understanding and co-constructing knowledge. In a small-group IC, teachers elicit students' talk about a text or narrative reading or other stimulus and expect to receive a large, sometimes loud, and usually joint response from students. Teachers urge students to question and challenge, rationalize and justify, find alternative and insightful solutions to problems, and continuously seek information to produce increasingly complex and higher-order thinking practices.
How Instructional Conversation Works
In a mathematics IC, five seventh grade Spanish-language minority students and their teacher discussed a circle measurement activity. The students had little experience in English conversation on an academic topic. The teacher referred to the product of the activity: a chart with strings that represent circle measurements. She generated many opportunities for each student to explain the chart and use the concept labels. The teacher's instructional goal was to ensure competence discussing the concepts in English. In IC, the students reveal their language proficiency levels and academic and social skill needs for the teacher to assess.
By the end of the instructional frame, the students were using circumference and diameter at high rates. The teacher challenged them to understand diameter and circumference and the relationship between the two concepts. The teacher moved the students into the learning zone just beyond what they knew in order to challenge them into more complex thinking about the concepts and the relationship between them. The students understood the concepts as more than a number of facts. The excerpts in the following paragraphs demonstrate the features of the IC.
Instruction Side of IC The instructional part of IC begins with the goal of assessing students' language proficiencies and levels of content knowledge, and with assisting them to increase their levels of understanding. As the teacher learns more about the students, more information is available to plan for their learning.
IC is the premier teaching occasion on which teachers foster all students' knowledge development through sustained academic dialogue. In IC, teaching assistance is explicit. Teachers guide students to make connections between ideas, facts, and procedures in problems, and to think critically about texts. Teachers monitor students' participation to ensure that each student is assisted more deeply than merely providing procedural applications or an answer. Teachers must assist students in acquiring the thinking and rethinking resources to understand current and subsequent learning challenges. IC is an occasion for teachers to focus on students' content understanding and academic language development. It is the path into students' zones of proximal development (Vygotsky, 1978), where thinking develops and learning occurs.
IC Sets a Clear Goal In general, a teacher describes the goal of an activity in the briefing session of an instructional frame. The specific goal of an IC can be stated as the IC begins and during the lesson. In the following excerpt, which was also presented in Chapter Four, the teacher states the goal of the lesson:
Teacher: Yeah, we're measuring circles but there's a special word for that, that particular measurement.
In another example, the teacher states the goal at the beginning of the IC:
Teacher: I have ten cookies I want to share with you, but I'm not exactly sure how to do that. How in the world am I going to equally share these cookies with this group?
The teacher can mention the goal of the IC during the lesson whenever it is helpful to students. In the following example, the teacher explains how she is guiding the IC:
Teacher: Now I'm going to help you by relating it back to the Hawaiians.
IC Assesses IC is an occasion for continuous student assessment. Teachers encourage student participation to obtain language that reflects students' thinking and knowledge, as in this excerpt that is also discussed in Chapter Six:
Daniel: This is the conconference, or whatever.
Teacher: So this one's the circumference, and this one is the diameter?
Daniel: I just remember that the diameter is the smallest, small, smaller than this one [referring to the circumference string].
Teacher: Well, which string did you measure around the edges with?
Daniel: This one [pointing to the circumference string].
Teacher: This one? The circumference?
Daniel: Yeah, and this one across it.
Teacher: Across it? So why do you think that this is smaller than this—that the diameter is smaller than the circumference? Why do you think that happens?
Daniel: Because if this one shrinks, like she said, it will shrink down, this one's still going to be smaller than that one.
Teacher: Why? What would happen, what would happen to this, the diameter?
Daniel: That one stays smaller. It will get smaller.
In this excerpt, the teacher focuses on assessing one student's understanding. The teacher recognizes an ELL student's need for more practice with vocabulary. She models the correct term for him. She checks his performance in the activity and then questions him on his understanding of the concepts and of their relationship to one another.
IC Assists Performance In an earlier excerpt from the same IC, the teacher modeled the terms diameter and circumference. She referred to a concrete representation of the terms: a string used to measure the circle elements. In the next excerpt, one student twice uses his everyday language to refer to diameter as ''half.'' In response to the teacher's modeling of the mathematics term, he succeeds in saying it. Even though two students argue over who has the right to answer a question, the teacher ignores the altercation, continuing to assist by modeling the mathematics terms.
Edgar: This is my long, my circle one, and this is my half one
Teacher: OK, this is your circumference line [running a finger up the string].
Edgar: Yeah.
Teacher: The long one? And this is your diameter line?
Edgar: [Nodding] Diameter.
Teacher: How do you know it, how do you know that?
Edgar: 'Cause—
Luis: The, the—
Edgar: Shut up, it's my question, dude.
Luis: This one's bigger and that one's smaller.
Edgar: No, 'cause it's my question, 'cause this is longer [going around the outside of the lid] than half [sliding finger down the middle of the lid and meaning diameter].
Teacher: OK, so you know that the circumference is long, bigger than the diameter.
In addition to modeling language during this exchange, the teacher directed a question at the Bloom taxonomy's level of comprehension (see Chapter Six). She asked, ''How do you know it?'' to assist the students in describing what they could recognize.
At the beginning of this chapter the students in this IC succeeded in using the content terms to explain how the mathematical concepts of diameter and circumference are related. The teacher's questioning included Bloom's application and analysis levels, which are more complex than the comprehension level. Through the teacher's continual assistance, the students were able to use the mathematics terms. The teacher persistently modeled language. She nudged the students with questions into more complex levels of thinking.
If an IC meanders far from its goal or stalls, the teacher reconsiders questions and prompts, and revises them immediately. The teacher may choose to reassess the level of material under discussion. Teachers often redirect IC by attending to features of the text or stimulus having to do with feelings and effect. The teacher may ask students directly how they feel about the development of the story characters.
Conversation Side of IC
The ideal conversation is inclusive, responsive, and balanced. IC promotes a speaking role for every student. The teacher monitors students' participation, especially to encourage reticent students.
Inclusive Teachers often begin IC with a topic or stimulus to elicit students' talk about their experiences, feelings, and prior knowledge. To encourage their talk, teachers may use manipulatives, illustrations, semantic webs, overviews, charts, textbooks, trade books, writing, games, student models, and student suggestions and comments. In the following excerpt, the teacher accepts every student's contribution, even irrelevant comments such as Concha's:
Luis: The black hole.
Teacher: Do you know what the black hole is? Can you explain that to everybody in the group?
Luis: It is a round thing, and it has a lot of stars.
Teacher: It is a round thing. [Turns and writes on board] So you're saying that the black hole is something—
Concha: I don't really care.
Teacher: That is round [Luis and Concha laugh] and it has, what else did you say?
Luis: Stars.
In an ideal IC, students do not raise their hands or take round-robin turns. During the early phase of an IC, teacher and students converse about a broad range of topics, but particularly individual experience and background knowledge. In the brief IC excerpt that follows, the teacher uses a photograph from a familiar television series, Star Trek, as a stimulus for students to talk about space, an interesting topic previously discussed with the whole class. The teacher selected an opening topic based on general math so she could get to know the students. Her goal was to develop rapport and find out what the students already knew about space. Although five students are participating, one student's responses demonstrate the advantages of IC for sustained dialogue between teacher and student that produces a complete and specific expression of the student's thinking.
Edgar: They have like holes in them. Like— [Moves his hands in a circular motion]
Teacher: They have like holes in the planet. Holes in the planet, does anybody know what else we can call that?
Luis: Pozos. [Holes]
Edgar: Shooting stars.
Teacher: Shooting stars? Is that another name for the holes in the planet? Does anyone know what those—
Edgar: Shooting stars are like stars, but they go shooo [makes sweeping hand gesture] really fast and when you see them you can make a wish.
Responsive IC assumes that students may have something to say beyond repeating the correct answers from the book. Students often provide correct answers, but IC requires teachers to grasp the intent of students' answers, whether they are correct, incomplete, or irrelevant. Teachers listen to personal and new information from students. They adjust their responses to assist students' communicative efforts to promote the conversation. Teachers continuously monitor the match between their planned IC assistance (such as activity level, questioning, scaffolds, and duration of IC) and the information presented by students' conversational participation, which may change the level or direction of the IC. This approach sounds highly challenging, but it actually involves routine adult conversational skills plus a teacher's insightfulness. For example, the following excerpt shows how a teacher is responsive and provides immediate assistance to a student:
Concha: I can't remember anything!
Teacher: You can't remember, that's OK. That's why we are reviewing. Now, do you know what it means when it's that three? What was [your regular classroom teacher] just talking about?
Daniel: Circles.
Concha: Circles and squares, circumference.
Edgar: Circumference.
Daniel: Degrees and all that.
Concha: Radius.
The teacher immediately sensed Concha's feelings of failure. The teacher reviewed the purpose of the conversation with Concha, then directed questions to her. The teacher's attention to Concha did not interrupt the flow of the conversation. The lack of disturbance was evidenced in the way the group continued. Daniel answered questions addressed to Concha, as did Edgar. Concha's subsequent appropriate contribution, ''Radius,'' indicated that she had returned to the conversation.
Certainly the teacher was skillful in maintaining the flow of the conversation while dealing with a single student's difficulties. The students' sustained attention to the content suggests that the group was highly focused and on topic. Later Concha was able to provide assistance to another student. Here the teacher begins to provide assistance again but defers to Concha when she tries to help the other student.
Teacher: Do you guys want to mark the middle?
Daniel: Hey, my middle came out crooked.
Teacher: Did you, when you—
Concha: Did you fold it twice?
Daniel: No, I didn't fold it twice.
Concha: Alright, so that's it.
Daniel accepted Concha's assistance. The course of an IC is open-ended, no matter how well planned. Responsiveness is key to affirming students' input, to exploring its meaning and value for the IC, and to returning the conversation to its goal.
Balanced Participation Teachers develop IC using students' contributions. In the following IC excerpt about Saturn's rings, the teacher guides but does not dominate. She allows a student to assist the conversation by introducing visual evidence.
Teacher: Yeah, and we also talked about some other characteristics. We talked about colors, and sometimes some planets have rings around them, right?
Luis: Just Saturn has it, only Saturn? [He looks up at a poster.]
Teacher: I don't know. Does only Saturn have a ring around it?
Daniel: Yeah.
Teacher: [To Daniel] Yeah?
Luis: They're all right there. Look. [Points up to poster. Everyone looks up.]
Edgar: Yeah, I think, huh?
Concha: Yeah, only Saturn.
Teacher: [To Concha] Only Saturn? [Concha nods.]
Notice how Luis answers the teacher's question but then returns the question back to the group. Luis then points everyone to the classroom poster. The visual evidence informs everyone, including one student who participates nonverbally with an affirmative nod.
Including IC regularly in the instructional frame of classroom teaching provides discussion and dialogic opportunities that assist learning. IC is an advance, but its occasional or sporadic presence is insufficient. Its full effect is accomplished when it is the culmination of the system of five pedagogy standards.
How to Schedule IC
The system of five pedagogy standards is designed to support IC as the major teaching approach. The instructional frame includes a variety of activities and groupings but schedules IC as a regular, daily activity. IC that is scheduled daily can be devoted to a single lesson on a specific topic, or it can extend over numerous sessions. The seventh grade ELL circle measurement IC was conducted over five classroom sessions of thirty minutes apiece.
Students know what the plan for the day is because the teacher always posts or writes the instructional frame on the board. This happens even before the briefing, when all of the tasks and activities are explained. Every one knows how the frame works and where they are scheduled to be according to their individual schedules with their sequence of numbers indicating the activity setting they are to attend. Or students might have a choice schedule, which contains activity settings they want to attend, which they have worked out with the teacher. On a choice schedule, students still attend the teaching activity setting and follow-up (see Appendix 8C). They understand that the teacher's work with groups in the teaching center is very important and is interrupted only in an emergency.
At the end of a frame's instructional activity session (which usually lasts twenty minutes) the teacher signals for everyone to move on to the next activity. Travel around the classroom is completed within a minute. After another twenty-minute session, the teacher signals the return to a whole-class format to debrief. On the way to the debriefing, the students deposit their papers in their work folders in the places designated to receive the work products. Then the ten-minute briefing begins. Students describe their progress. The classroom agreement is reviewed to check how it matches their experience. The teacher is pleased to inform the students that their progress matches the agreement and they will soon have a pizza party reward. All the students leave the class with smiles and feelings of accomplishment.
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