Teacher Talk is the beginning of a professional conversation, a reflective dialogue focused on the lives of particular students and the opportunities for student success in our classrooms. The message of Teacher Talk is that the people with the problems are also the people with the solutions, and that only the self-activity of teachers can, in the end, improve teaching in any fundamental or sustained way. Teacher Talk unlocks the tacit knowledge of teachers, makes that know-ledge public and shared, and therefore subject to deliberate and thoughtful change. Teacher Talk is a form of voluntary peer staff development and can be conceived as teacher action research, formal teacher reflection, sustained appreciative inquiry. We hear a lot these days about accountability.
Talk aims at professional development leading to whole- school change.
It is not a model of nibbling around the margins of the school through pulling out a few like-minded teachers. Teacher Talk is a potential activity for every teacher. In short, Teacher Talk aims to build a professional community .