In this case the teacher models active listening and effective speaking skills and provides guided practice and the students share points of view, experiences, take turns speaking, make eye contact, stay on topic, and make decisions.
This case shows a teacher facilitating a discussion and observing students in small groups and students expressing their interpretations of two images, analyzing Adaptive Matching Cards, and recording their findings with a flip camera.
In this case the teacher facilitates a fish bowl discussion among his students and students share their understanding of "The Great Gatsby", relating the novel to the role of the individual in society and the search for the American Dream.
This case shows a teacher expertly facilitating a class in their discussion of the historical context behind Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech and students engaging in purposeful, respectful dialogue about this issue and the purpose of the speech.
This case shows a teacher facilitating and students responding to questions pertaining to the fire motif, government control, and censorship in the novel "Fahrenheit 451".
This case shows a teacher focusing on the communication skills of listening and viewing and students listening and watching video clips of their presentations, improving their presentations, and presenting logos to the class.
This case shows a teacher reviewing good listening and viewing skills using scientific illustrations and students practicing good listening and viewing skills when looking at peers' illustrations of snails and sharing with their classmates what they observed in the illustration.
In this case, a teacher responds to her students' struggles with interrupting and blurting out by teaching what good listeners and speakers do through the use of visuals, literature, and technology-based presentations. Students make inferences about good listening skills and then practice good speaking skills by presenting information about severe weather to younger students. Finally, students peer review videos of the presentations using a Two Stars and a Wish strategy and then self-assess using a student-generated rubric.
This case shows a teacher explaining and modeling SLANT (Sit up straight, Lean forward, Activate your thinking, Note key ideas, Track talker) and students practicing SLANT during student presentations.
This case shows a teacher facilitating a mock trial debate about "The Scarlet Ibis" by James Hurst and students arguing two sides of the issue and supporting their assertions with evidence from the text.
In this case the teacher scaffolds instruction and provides anchor charts for listening, speaking and viewing skills and students present oral reports on farm animals.
This case shows a teacher discussing how to view a video for author's meaning and effective ways to view, speak, and listen, and students viewing and writing examples of author's meaning from the video and role playing an interview, the Patriot and the Loyalist.
This case shows a teacher meeting with small groups of well prepared students respectfully discussing "Murder on the Orient Express" and students thinking critically about what they read, using their annotated notes and sharing their viewpoints with each other.
This case shows a teacher modeling how to make a text-to-self connection and students writing a connection to "The Snowy Day" by Ezra Jack Keats and sharing it with their peers.
In this case the teacher is facilitating discussions among students after they have explored Edvard Munch paintings and students share their comparisons between the art and the works of Franz Kafka with their own personal experiences to evaluate how art and literature capture the human condition.
This case shows a teacher leading a discussion on creating a rubric for speaking skills and students working in groups to create the rubric and practicing speaking skills during a class presentation.
This case shows a teacher observing students effectively debating a topic and students logically defending their position on whether industrial or organic foods are "better".
This case shows a teacher reviewing speaking, viewing, and listening skills with her class and then students presenting on topics of their choice while practicing their communication skills.
This case shows a teacher showing her 1st grade class videos of 5th graders practicing communication skills and students evaluating these skills, then doing presentations themselves on animals and evaluating each presenter.
This case shows a teacher reviewing good speaking and listening skills and students practicing good speaking and listening skills in a pair/share activity, individual presentations, and group multi-media presentations on various science topics.