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What everything does and why.
Before you teach your first EVA lesson, these three short videos walk you through the essentials — how the platform works, how to set up paired dialogue, and how to establish the ground rules that make oracy-rich discussion possible. Watch all three before your first lesson. Total time: under eight minutes.
Your First EVA™ Lesson — A complete walkthrough of the platform: what each screen does, how the reveal toggles work, and how to move through a lesson at your own pace. Everything you need to feel confident before you start.
Creating Ground Rules — How to build shared agreements for productive talk. Ground rules aren’t decoration — they’re the foundation that makes every dialogic activity work. This guide shows you how to introduce them so students take ownership from day one.
Setting Up Pair Talk — How to structure paired discussion so it actually produces thinking, not just noise. Covers pairing strategies, the role of sentence stems, and what to listen for when pairs are talking.
Why Oracy Matters — The research case for dialogic teaching in three minutes. Why talk isn’t a soft skill — it’s the mechanism through which students think, reason, and learn.