Communication
“The student communicates effectively orally to inform, influence, motivate, and collaborate with other students, the community, media, and public officials.”
Through our CivicTREK projects, we are helping our students meet the Five C’s goals from Profile of a Virginia Graduate such as communication.
How can we help students effectively communicate by:
- Sharing their thoughts, to communicate complex ideas clearly and effectively?
- Listening respectfully to others, to recognize both shared and divergent values, attitudes, and intentions?
- Using their voice for a range of purposes? and
- Understanding that diverse audiences can affect the way an intended message is heard?
The following short video, Encouraging Academic Conversations with Talk Moves, presents a classroom strategy to try with your students. Please also see the handout “Talk Moves” (used in the video) that you can reproduce and share with your students.
CivicTREK Connection: Ask students to develop a 2-to-3 sentence description about their project, to be shared with other classes, teachers, the school principal, and their parents. Suggest that their statement address the following:
- What community need are you addressing?
- What inspired you to address this need?
- What academic content or skills do you think you might learn along the way?
(Tip: students may want to develop a base statement, and adapt it for various audiences.)
