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Storytelling to Assess Speaking and Listening
An effective use of rubrics that encourages the student storyteller how to determine if his/her audience is listening. Learn about the different listening skill rubrics, storytelling rubrics and a self-assessment guide that asks the...
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...
McGraw Hill
Mc Graw Hill: Speaking and Listening: Respond to Ideas and Questions
Excellent guidelines for how to ask and answer questions in order to have a productive group discussion.
McGraw Hill
Mc Graw Hill: Carol's Classroom: Speaking and Listening: Prepare for Discussions
This video lesson [4:11] focuses on clear communication and active listening, essential social-emotional skills, that help lay the foundation of positive learning environments. They can develop these skills and take responsibility for...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: What Makes a Good or Bad Leader?
After deciding on the criteria of a good leader, students research either a good or bad leader, create a class presentation of that person which focuses on his/her impact on history. Students then write and perform a three to four minute...
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.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Lesson Plan: Effective Interview Questions
Explore effective interview questions. By choosing questions that are open-ended and important to them, students can learn great interview skills that can be helpful in future college and job interviews.
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.
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: 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.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Cooperative Learning: Great Grouping Strategies
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides ways to organize cooperative groups so that meaningful discussion will occur. It also offers a worksheet for determining learning styles that is useful to develop groups. SL.9-10.1c Active Partic
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Adapting Cr Processes to Workplace Rules: Lesson 2
At the end of this tutorial, the learner will understand ways to perform conflict resolution processes within the context or rules and requirements of a workplace. It is 2 of 3 in the series titled "Adapting CR Processes to Workplace...
Mind Tools
Mind Tools: Time Management
Mind Tools provides information regarding time management, information on beating procrastination, activity logs, action plans, prioritized to do lists, information on scheduling skills, personal goal setting tips, and time management...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Time Management
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart gives middle school students some guidelines and websites to help them develop time management skills.