Travels around the Cape. So many questions and issues float up.
Recently at CHHS - a conversation/workshop around teaching speaking and listening. Teachers are alarmed. Students don't know how to... Speak effectively AND Listen effectively.
There are simple constructs that we can teach them. We do not. Till now.
Speaking and listening are an integral part of the Common Core Standards. My work has been with teachers. Teach students to listen. Teach them to speak.
Babies babel.
Toddlers speak in words, then phrases, then sentences.
What about school children? They are void of good information especially those who have grown up responding to screens, phones, computers, televisions. How to speak well? How to listen?
Let's change that.
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