In other words, children come to school and to classroom activities with different impulses, purposes and skills. Many children come to school with no idea of what school is for or of how they are supposed to behave, and with little skill in school behavior. Within these forms, teachers and students exert reciprocal influence on each other. With repetition of familiar forms of social interaction, each member learns what to look and listen for, how to understand what he or she sees and hears, when it is his or her turn and what he or she is supposed to do within this society. For example, teachers and students are supposed to engage in certain behaviors in response to each other.
Students say the word, and the teacher acknowledges the correct response.
These interaction sequences are highly regular from moment to moment and from lesson to lesson. In fact, when teachers make mistakes, students invariably correct them. Following are some examples. No, we gotta all see. You gotta get us ALL to say it.