#fcpslearn is a weekly chat about teaching and learning. Our focus is on creativity, innovation and inspiration. We discuss a range of educational topics that range from technology integration to the Olympics.
A1: Communication is essential to relationships. Relationships are essential to education. If we want to invest our students, we need to converse and have meaningful discussion with them. #fcpslearn
A1: Ss need to know not only how to communicate their ideas to their Ts, but also to each other w/out fear of judgment or failure. Communication is a crucial skill that is essential to be a functioning and contributing member of society. #fcpslearn
A1: Communication is key because it is how our society operates. It's an essential skill that needs to be understood, if we expect for our students to be functional employees, leaders, husbands, mothers, spouses, brothers, sisters, community members, etc. #fcpslearn
Without communication, we donāt build relationships. Relationships between teachers/students and students/students are the foundation that education is built upon. #fcpslearn
A1 Communication for students begins with self. We call this self-reflection. This is their ways of self-assessing and self-creating. It is the self-talk that allows for the freedom to think. #fcpslearn
A1: Communication is an important part of a student's learning because learning to express yourself clearly is the key to success many strategic areas in life. #fcpslearn
Simply put...because a degree of communication is required in every profession along with virtually every other aspect of your life. #careerready#fcpslearn
A1: Communication is huge - far too often we see the negative effects of poor communication, so having Ss who are able to express themselves in a clear and positive way is very important #fcpslearn
Both verbal & non-verbal communication leads to trust, which leads to healthy relationships, which leads to the willingness to embrace anything at all! #fcpslearn
A1 Often, we find students that have learned poor communication habits- not allowed to be heard at home, freedom of expression squashed at school. We must help them to unlearn this damage. #fcpslearn
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1. Develops great listening skills.
2. Key for reflection and feedback
3. Makes for clear expectations.
4. Helps is building a positive, high expectation culture.
5. Necessary for any adjustments in teaching and assessing. #fcpslearn
A2: I love "Say It, Do It" with Legos at the beginning of the year as a team-building, communication game. Sitting back to back with identical sets of pieces, one partner has to explain in words only how to recreate a Lego structure they've built. #fcpslearn
A1 -
1. Develops great listening skills.
2. Key for reflection and feedback
3. Makes for clear expectations.
4. Helps is building a positive, high expectation culture.
5. Necessary for any adjustments in teaching and assessing. #fcpslearn
A2: I spend a lot of time allowing for student collaboration. I'd say my favorite strategy would be conversation. It helps us as adults and it helps our kiddos as students! #fcpslearn
A2: We do some fun art where Ss had partners - 1 closed eyes and drew what the other partner described from a picture - really interesting to see how Ss conveyed what they saw in the picture for the other to draw #fcpslearn
A3: Giving them topics that do not take a long time to discuss, so then conversation quickly goes off-task. There has to be a better idea than "Talk for ten minutes about your favorite color." #fcpslearn
A3: We want students to communicate, and then we forget to let them speak. We need to continue becoming comfortable stepping out of the spotlight in order to let our students shine! #fcpslearn
A3 Teachers often expect students to understand what they mean- to communicate. Good skills must be taught intentionally with opportunities to practice. With feedback.. #fcpslearn
A3: I think a common mistake is not modeling methods to communicate with each other. For example, sentence starters help the students with formulating how to respectfully disagree without fear of upsetting the other person. #fcpslearn
A2: I use a back-to-back drawing game. One verbalizes to her partner the picture she has in front of her. The partner canāt talk, only draw. Flip roles, this time the partner can only ask ?s about the picture. Stresses the importance of clear communication! #fcpslearn
A3: We want students to communicate, and then we forget to let them speak. We need to continue becoming comfortable stepping out of the spotlight in order to let our students shine! #fcpslearn
A3: That it has to be high-tech. Some of the best conversations can be had while playing a board game or cards. Give them opportunity to build relationships with people outside of their comfort zone. Happens all the time here at home. #fcpslearn
A3: Giving them topics that do not take a long time to discuss, so then conversation quickly goes off-task. There has to be a better idea than "Talk for ten minutes about your favorite color." #fcpslearn
A2: If I play music when theyāre working it often brings them together- a convo, or singing. Sometimes dancing!! More comm than if they listen to music w earbuds #fcpslearn
A3 I think a common mistake is not having examples and modelling of a particular type of communicating like math sentence stems. Very specific type of communication #fcpslearn
#fcpslearn A1 - Donna here from Colorado -communication is an integral part to not only how a S learns, but how they grow and develop a sense of wonder
A4: I tried @Classkick earlier this year and loved the feature that allowed students to "raise their hand" for anonymous help from other students. Need to use it again! #fcpslearn
A4: I enjoy using the question feature in google classroom. Allows students to submit a response and also reply to each other. It allows for authentic conversation, but I can also help supervise it to make sure positive choices are being made. #fcpslearn
A4 Inquiry sessions that evoke emotions. Example: When students are learning about the events of Emmitt Till and questioning society as well as the constitution. #fcpslearn
A4: Forums to gather thoughts based on a shared digital text like TED Talks. Then ask them to scan the comments, select one (other than their own) that resonates with them, finally share what they found be attributing it to the student author, and answer so what? #fcpslearn
A4: Using good old Gsuite where students need to work together on the same doc but cannot sit near each other. Some use the chat feature of docs, others use messenger, and some even did hangouts! #fcpslearn
Iāve had success with Flipgrid and my students also like Padlet. Teaching 10 year olds to have real conversations is a constant struggle with and without technology. #fcpslearn
A5: Communication and collaboration go hand in hand. A strong grasp of digital citizenship will ensure that all communication is positive, effective and balanced with the ever-important face-to-face communication. #fcpslearn
A5: Communication builds into these essential characteristics. Giving them space to communicate and collaborate now will set them up for long term successes. #fcpslearn
A5 Good collaboration requires understanding of social norms in communication. Listening is key. DC requires an understanding of safe and secure social norms in communication. #fcpslearn
A5: You need to be able to talk through differences with people that you might not see eye to eye with. Many times, we do it via email or text which can break bad, quickly. We need to be able to advocate IRL, and digitally, in an appropriate manner. #fcpslearn
A5: Communication and collaboration go hand in hand. A strong grasp of digital citizenship will ensure that all communication is positive, effective and balanced with the ever-important face-to-face communication. #fcpslearn
A5: To have good and effective collaboration you have to be able to communicate effectively. Digital citizenship fits in with how you communicate yourself with posts and comments online #fcpslearn
A5: In order to collaborate, we have to communicate effectively with each other. Digital citizenship also requires the same respectful, effective communication. #fcpslearn
A5: In order to collaborate, we have to communicate effectively with each other. Digital citizenship also requires the same respectful, effective communication. #fcpslearn
A5 A prerequisite of good collaboration is good communication skills and interpersonal skills. Pretty hard to be a good citizen without them #fcpslearn
