University of Colorado
University of Colorado: Meetings That Deal With Conflict
The site provides guidelines for facilitating a meeting that deals with conflict.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Facs: Communication
This lesson plan is to help students identify good listening and talking skills. The different kinds of communication are verbal, written, and non-verbal. Included in this instructional activity are activities for each type of...
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Boundless Communications: Working in Groups
A lesson on leadership styles and responsibilities of working in groups.
Wisc-Online
Wisc Online: How to Listen Better
Students read a description of what it means to listen respectively. Then they write a brief action plan for becoming a better listener.
Wisc-Online
Wisc Online: Group Discussion
We will all encounter situations where we need to work with a group of people, whether in class, business, or socially. This slideshow reviews the different types of groups and the roles each person plays in group discussions....
Other
Toolpack Consulting: Effective Meetings
You will find lots of good advice here including what to expect during a meeting and how to deal with people.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Jigsaw Lit Circle Discussions
Students will participate in a discussion of a text by preparing for a literature circle. This lesson is an example of the Jigsaw Method. A student video and grading rubric are provided.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Analyzing Literary Devices With a Written Discussion
Students will be able to analyze literary devices by participating in a written discussion. This activity is called "Pass the Paper". Students pass a sheet of paper around the room, with each student adding on. It's just a different way...
Wisc-Online
Wisc Online: Barriers to Effective Listening
Learn about the 7 barriers to effective listening and test yourself at the end. Of which barriers are you guilty?
Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media: Give Every Student a Stake in Group Work
Can we organize group work so that every student has ownership over their learning? This is a collection of resources that highlight some tips on how to make students' group work more relevant and impactful for everyone involved.
Joe Landsberger
Study Guides and Strategies: Time Management
Guide to developing time management skills provides practical tips and strategies to help organize and prioritize studies. Includes link to an assignment calendar that creates steps needed to complete an assignment.
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Question Answer Relationship (Qar)
Question-Answer relationship (QAR) is a strategy to be used after students have read. QAR teaches students how to decipher what types of questions they are being asked and where to find the answers to them. Four types of questions are...
Other
Analytic Technologies: Manual for Working in Teams
Basic information on communicating in teams. Explains that you must get to know your teammates and their individual strengths and weaknesses. Discusses setting goals, having a structure for different responsibilities, and having meetings.
Other
Pstcc: Four Principles of Interpersonal Communication
Discusses four inevitable components of interpersonal communication. These principles occur in real interpersonal interaction and are basic to communication.
Other
Rmit University: Rmit Counselling Service: Talking to People [Pdf]
This material on people skills discusses how to develop and maintain people skills. It also contains a section in the middle about the importance of receiving messages (listening) and common barriers to doing so.
Other
Team Building inc.com: The Miracle of Pittron Steel
The writer reviews the work of Wayne Alderson and claims that a person's beliefs can interfere with reaching consensus. The article uses Alderson's technique as a premise for all consensus building.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Random Grouping Techniques
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides a strategy for cooperative learning groups. Students will be divided by the following methods: students' similarities and differences, genres, and random means.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Cooperative Learning: How to Assign Meaningful Tasks
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides cooperative grouping strategies. Students will be able to communicate effectively with the aid of this resource.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Cooperative Learning: Strategies for Problematic Members
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides a cooperative grouping strategy. This strategy focuses on placing students who tend to get into trouble.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Discipline Packet
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides reproducible packet that will engage students in reflecting about their behavior. The packet may be used as typical writing prompts or as part of a classroom management system. Additional...
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Cooperative Learning: Great Grouping Strategies
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides cooperative learning strategies. Learning style assessments is a strategy suggested, along with several ways of randomly assigning students to groups.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Good Listening in Class
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides an efficient listening tool. Students will be able to listen more effectively by following steps provided on this resource.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Homework Tips for Students
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides graphic organizers with homework tips. Students will learn strategies to help them manage their time and come to class prepared to learn.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Work as a Team to Achieve a Common Goal
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides information about the importance of cooperation. Students will learn strategies to help students work together as a team.