This article provides suggestions for how to improve your active listening skills -- and that you could use with your students.
Australian Aboriginal art is one of the oldest continuing art traditions in the world. Much of the most important knowledge of aboriginal society was conveyed through different kinds of storytelling—including narratives that were spoken, performed as dances or songs, and those that were painted. In this lesson students will learn about the Aboriginal storytelling tradition through the spoken word and through visual culture. They will have the opportunity to hear stories of the Dreamtime told by the Aboriginal people, as well as to investigate Aboriginal storytelling in contemporary dot paintings.
This website provides class discussion strategies grouped by higher-prep, low-prep, and ongoing strategies.
Facilitating student-to-student discussion provides students an opportunity to deliberate essential questions facing their community. This is an authentic practice to build and practice content knowledge, civic skills, and dispositions.
Oral History Interviews that bring students together with veterans help to foster empathy and make history come alive. This lessons offers a step-by-step guide to doing an oral history project with Vietnam War Veterans.
Students will learn that there are rules to be followed or jobs to be done in the classroom. Students will also learn how to listen and speak to others.
Students create movements to represent long and short rhythmic patterns and compose patterns using non-traditional notation.
Students listen to and describe sounds.
Students demonstrate the expressive quality of tempo through movement.
Includes suggestions for how to increase student engagement and participation during class discussions.
Provides evidence-based strategies to support students (geared towards a university audience but many of the suggestions can be adapted/used in secondary contexts).
This article provides suggestions for teaching students presentation skills.
This article provides guidelines for teaching students to organize a presentation or speech effectively, speaking with credibility and confidence.
This article describes ways teachers can be intentional about calling on a diverse set of voices, ensuring multiple perspectives are represented in class discussion.
This article provides guidelines for teaching, modeling, and practicing the basics of effective speaking.
Provides strategies to improve the quality of discussion in online as well as in-person formats.
This website and professional texts by Jeff Zwiers offer a variety of resources (tools, research, videos, etc.) for strengthening the quality and quantity of productive academic conversations.
This article discusses explicitly teaching and assessing listening comprehension skills in the elementary grades and provides templates for classroom use.
Students brainstorm strategies to guide their listening as they describe and label music of different genres.
This video segment from Between the Lions features a catchy song that celebrates an important function of literacy: access to information. It also shows the wide world of print, and all of the knowledge that can be gained from it.