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McGraw Hill

Mc Graw Hill: Carol's Classroom: Speaking and Listening: Prepare for Discussions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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...
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Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Lessons From Auschwitz: The Power of Our Words

For Students 9th - 10th
Classical music mastermind Benjamin Zander concluded his 2008 TED Talk by recounting the heartrending story of an Auschwitz survivor and her brother. This short animated piece highlights that story, reminding us that the words we speak...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Identifying Intelligence Types to Increase Student Success

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Read this passage and study the chart to complete a five-question quiz about intelligence types.
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Teachers: What Is Affluenza? (Lesson in Materialism and Overconsumption)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A lesson plan developed for in-class screenings of the PBS documentary "Affluenza," but which could easily be adapted to support any instructional activity on understanding personal consumption choices. Students will compare and contrast...
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Article
Other

What Are Good Leadership Skills: Definition of Leadership

For Students 9th - 10th
Becoming a leader depends highly on interpersonal relationship skills. Without being able to communicate and empathize with others, attempts at any type of leadership are often futile. This site poses difficult questions to determine...
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Cliques, Friendship Groups, or Boxes?"

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Explore the social "boxes" students place themselves in or are put in by others, and focus on how individuals judge one another.
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Other

Self growth.com: Empathy in Communication

For Students 9th - 10th
Empathy is a vital part of human communication. The article defines the term and shows how to develop empathy.
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Handout
Kidsource OnLine

Kidsource: How Can Parents Model Good Listening Skills?

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Good listening guidelines that parents can model for their children. Also includes suggestions for communicating with children.
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Handout
Integrated Publishing

Integrated Publishing: The Communication Process

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
With text and diagrams, this article surveys the communication process, which consists of a message being sent and received, either verbally or nonverbally.
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Cooperative Learning: Great Grouping Strategies

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
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
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Article
Other

Work 911: Basic Negotiating Tips

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Site provides an excellent article, including an overview to the concept of negotiation, barriers to negotiation, and several useful tips for how to successfully negotiate. SL.9-10.1d Possitive Communication Stratagies
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University of Texas at Austin

University of Texas: Learning to Be Assertive

For Students 9th - 10th
A one-page information page on learning how to be assertive.
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Other

Communicating at Work: Five Basic Human Needs

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will learn about the five basic human needs and how to address them in the workplace through these learning activities. An assessment is included.
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Article
University of Pennsylvania

U Penn Library: Dreiser's Critical Reputation

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A scholarly paper on Theodore Dreiser's "Sister Carrie" and the problem of using words to communicate as opposed to tone and other non-verbal means.
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Article
Other

Cooperative Communcation Skills: Emergency Kit [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site is provided for by Cooperative Communication Skills. Seven suggestions for resolving or refusing conflict before it gets out of hand. SL.9-10.1c Active Participation. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.SL.1, SL.11-12.1c Questions/Part

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