Dialogic Learning, Interactive Teaching and Cognitive Mobilizing Patterns

The current conceptions of teaching and learning and the educational actions based thereon place the key to learning in the interactions that take place in educational spaces, highlighting the need to increase the quantity, diversity, and quality of these interactions as a condition to improve learning. With this purpose, this paper proposes a series of criteria that optimizes the quality of the interactions and characterizes the dialogical interaction style of the teaching staff. These are Cognitive Mobilizing Patterns (CMP), which constitute a systematic set of guidelines for dialogic interaction that may be used for both the analysis of interactions and for teacher training in the criteria that define interactive and dialogical teaching.