Communication Skills
Ability to listen deeply, foster genuine dialogue, advocate one's views skillfully, manage conflicts constructively and adapt communication to diverse groups.
Dimension Collaborating — Building Trust and Working Together
For me
- How many of my questions in class are real questions I don't know the answer to?
- How do I speak to parents differently than to students – and how much of that is helpful?
For my class
- How do you notice that someone is really listening to you?
- How do you tell someone that something bothers you without hurting them?
In the classroom
- Work out rules for conversation together and put them up as a poster.
- A class council with fixed roles: chair, minutes, timekeeping, mood.
Subject links
Language arts · Foreign languages · Class time
Mini-exercise · 5 minutes
Mirroring
In pairs: A talks for a minute. B summarises: “What I understood is …” A corrects or confirms. Then swap.
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