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Speak
your mind: talking, thinking, listening, learning
This
course offers a practical exploration of oral activities for use
in mid-primary to lower secondary classrooms. Run in Dundee and
City of Edinburgh.
With access to an adaptable set of techniques and strategies, teachers
can quickly harness the power of speech and thought in their pupils,
ensuring their entitlement to the empowerment that oral skill can
bring. These techniques not only allow teachers to create manageable
teaching and learning opportunities: they also ensure that progress
can be more readily monitored, taking much of the uncertainty out
of this often underdeveloped area of the curriculum.
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| Aims |
- To
deepen knowledge and understanding relating to the role of talking
and listening in the English language curriculum and beyond
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offer a range of strategies that will enrich pupil experience
and offer teachers accessible models for teaching and learning
in this area
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| Content |
- Preparing
the ground: current thinking about talking and listening
- Talking
and listening roles and rules
- Exploring
the speaking continuum
- Relationships
between the four language modes
- Considering
oral text types
- Scaffolding
talking and listening
- Ways
of working in groups
- Drawing
on drama techniques
- Tapping
into poetry and literature
- Thinking
about thinking
- Thinking
about progression and assessment
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| Strategies explored could
include: Hot seating, interviewing, choral work, freeze frames and
Heathcote’s 5 levels, snowballing, envoys, jigsaws, talking
frames, listening games, questioning techniques, note-making from
video, Edward de Bono’s 6 hat thinking, Robert Fisher’s
networks, philosophical enquiry |
| This is
a full day course, but it can run over two half days (2 x three hours)
or three twilights |
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