Communication Skills

Prepare students for academic and life success by helping them develop their listening, speaking, writing, and digital media skills.

Communication Skills
Teaching Students to Disagree Productively
Teachers can scaffold discussions from the early grades on in ways that show students how to respectfully share dissenting opinions.
How Learning Happens
Encouraging Academic Conversations With Talk Moves
Sentence starters that students use to join a class discussion encourage both academic thinking and social connectedness.
How Learning Happens
Scaffolding Discussion Skills With a Socratic Circle
Students deepen their understanding and build a sense of community by engaging with their peers’ reasoned arguments.
Teaching Strategies
How Learning Happens
In this video series, we explore how educators can guide all students, regardless of their developmental starting points, to become productive and engaged learners.
Communication Skills
Balancing Instruction in Social Studies
The difficult challenge of teaching reading, writing, and speaking in addition to social studies content and skills.
Communication Skills
60-Second Strategy: Discussion Mapping
Following discussions with a quick reflection exercise helps students sharpen their speaking and listening skills.
Communication Skills
A Strategy for Effective Student Collaboration
A well-known protocol can help student teams reflect intentionally on their work—a necessity for improvement and learning.
Communication Skills
More Talking in Class, Please
Strategies for facilitating small group and whole class conversations with students in grades 3 to 12.
Communication Skills
60-Second Strategy: Fishbowl Discussion
A discussion technique based on peer feedback helps students delve into complex texts and develop communication skills.
Education Trends
Sharing Student Work Beyond the Classroom
The Share Your Learning campaign highlights the value of having students present their work to authentic audiences.