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CAJCS APPROACHES TO LEARNING GUIDE: COMMUNICATION SKILLS

SKILL DEVELOPMENT

TYPES OF COMMUNICATION

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FOR STUDENTS

Through Interaction:

Give and receive meaningful feedback
 Use intercultural understanding to interpret communication
 Use a variety of speaking techniques to communicate with a variety of audiences
 Use appropriate forms of writing for different purposes and audiences
 Use a variety of media to communicate with a range of audiences
 Interpret and use effectively modes of non-verbal communication
 Negotiate ideas and knowledge with peers and teachers
 Participate in, and contribute to, digital social media networks
 Collaborate with peers and experts using a variety of digital environments and media
 Share ideas with multiple audiences using a variety of digital environments and media

7C's of Communication

LISTENING SKILLS

Preview and skim texts to build understanding

Read critically and for comprehension

Give and receive meaningful feedback

Speaking Skills

Through Language:

Read critically and for comprehension
 Read a variety of sources for information and for
pleasure
 Make inferences and draw conclusions
 Use and interpret a range of discipline-specific
terms and symbols
 Write for different purposes
 Understand and use mathematical notation
 Paraphrase accurately and concisely
 Preview and skim texts to build understanding
 Take effective notes in class
 Make effective summary notes for studying
 Use a variety of organizers for academic writing tasks
 Find information for disciplinary and interdisciplinary inquiries, using a variety of media
 Organize and depict information logically
 Structure information in summaries, essays and reports

GUIDANCE FOR TEACHERS-WAYS TO IMPROVE STUDENT COMMUNICATION

Ways to improve Verbal communication skill:

  • Provide subject specific Command terms to the student
  • For a particular unit provide list of difficult words with their meaning.
  • Encourage students to write letter, blogs, and articles as per the subject requirement.
  • Give opportunity of debating in class
  • Give open ended topic and let them speak for a minute.
  • Encourage role play
  • Give opportunities for paraphrasing.

Ways to improve Non- verbal communication skill:

  • After completion of the topic let students summarize their understanding in the form of flow chart.
  • Give opportunities to present information in the form of table and graphs.
  • Play games like dumb charades.
  • Do stress management activities which will help students to tune their volume and control their body language.
  • Conduct activities which give student opportunity to look into each other eyes and speak confidentially or express them without using words but just with gestures.

How miscommunication happens (and how to avoid it)

7C'S COMMUNICATION CHECKLIST

Interpret and use effectively modes of non-verbal communication

Use a variety of speaking techniques to communicate with a variety of audiences

Structure information in summaries, essays and reports

Unit 4 : critical and contextual awareness in creative media production. | wildersanchezkc

COMMUNICATION GAMES

Use and interpret a range of discipline-specific terms and symbols

Where do Maths symbols come from?

TEDed lesson with video and activities:
Math is full of symbols: lines, dots, arrows, English letters, Greek letters, superscripts, subscripts ... it can look like an illegible jumble. Where did all of these symbols come from? John David Walters shares the origins of mathematical symbols, and illuminates why they’re still so important in the field today.