Tactical Teaching Speaking and Listening

Do you want a toolkit of short burst activities to improve student speaking, active listening, note taking and study skills?

Tactical Teaching Speaking and Listening

Being able to present your ideas clearly and succinctly, to hang on to the most important points in what you hear, and to take and make effective notes are crucial skills for learning and for life. Each of the three non-sequential and highly practical 2 hour workshops address a different aspect of speaking and listening to help learning area teachers maximise the teaching and learning of curriculum material. They provide practical, hands-on and engaging approaches and activities that can be easily implemented in all learning areas with very little preparation.

Recommended for:

While crafted for middle school and secondary teachers this resource can effectively be used by teachers of late primary students and adult learners to improve speaking, listening, and note taking and note making skills.

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Take a Teacher Course and learn how to use the resource in your classroom, or better yet, take a Facilitator Course and learn to deliver the workshops to other teachers.

Workshop 1: Getting More Bang for Your Blah - promoting effective listening in teenagers

Teachers reflect on the strategies effective listeners use, and expand their repertoire of tactical teaching and learning activities that support students as they practise these strategies. Teachers learn how to help students listen respectfully and purposefully, to retain information and respect other's points of view.

Getting More Bang for your Blah workbook contains over a dozen innovative short burst activities for exploring learning area subject matter.

Workshop 2: Harnessing Hot Air - making student talk work

When students speak in purposeful ways about subject-specific concepts they extend and enrich their knowledge and understanding. Harnessing Hot Air shows teachers why student talk is so important to adolescent learning and how to engage them in subject material discussionThis workshop helps teachers expand their repertoire of tactical teaching and learning activities to include activities that encourage students to use talk as a powerful tool of both thought and expression.

Harnessing Hot Air workbook contains over a dozen innovative and interactive activities for exploring learning area subject matter.

Session 3: Notetaking and Notemaking – the power platform of listening and speaking

This workshop highlights the value of notetaking and notemaking for speaking and listening in a wide variety of settings. It unravels the mystery of why most students struggle with maximising notetaking and notemaking, providing teachers and students with strategic ways of organising and recording their thoughts. These powerful organisational skills help students in all learning areas.

Notetaking and notemaking – the power platform of listening and speaking workbook contains over a dozen innovative and interactive activities for exploring learning area subject matter.

The Tactical Teaching suite:

Tactical Teaching is based on the belief that teachers need to make decisions about what to teach (the learning area), to whom (which students), and how (the most effective way) to teach. Its power comes from helping students construct their understandings through developing effective processes and strategies to self-manage their learning.

Tactical Teaching training is a whole school approach to improved literacy. It is easy to use and teachers learn how to help students hone literacy skills while invigorating classes with student-focused tasks. Participants try out at least a dozen practical activities to take straight back to the classroom.

Tactical Teaching training is used in thousands of classrooms worldwide with more than 600 teachers trained as Facilitators of Tactical Teaching.

Recommended for:

• Crafted for middle school and secondary teachers
• Effectively supports teachers of late primary students and adult learners to improve literacy.

Tactical Teaching training is used in thousands of classrooms worldwide with more than 600 teachers trained as Facilitators of Tactical Teaching.