CAJCS APPROACHES TO LEARNING GUIDE: SOCIAL SKILLS

Use social media networks appropriately to build and develop relationships
 Practice empathy

 Delegate and share responsibility for decision-making

 Help others to succeed
 Take responsibility for one’s own actions
 Manage and resolve conflict, and work collaboratively in teams
 Build consensus
 Make fair and equitable decisions
 Listen actively to other perspectives and ideas
 Negotiate effectively
 Encourage others to contribute
 Exercise leadership and take on a variety of roles within groups
 Give and receive meaningful feedback
 Advocate for one’s own rights and needs

• Tricider

  Collect ideas, debate pros and cons and enable your class to vote.

• Flask

  To do lists that you can share with a class.

• Bubble.us

  Enables you to create and share mindmaps .

• Lino

  Lino provides a collaboration space where groups can add sticky notes, photos and discussions.

• Trello

  Collaborative workboard, to organise and collaborate information in a visually clear way. Signin required.

• Padlet

  A group brainstorming/discussion tool using online sticky notes.

• Tes Teach

  Allows you to create lessons using a compilation of online resources. Students can comment and interact.

• Seven Norms of Collaboration

  A 15 page PDF that looks at teaching seven collaboration skills, including
  1. Pausing
  2. Paraphrasing
  3. Posing Questions
  4. Putting Ideas on the Table
  5. Providing Data
  6. Paying Attention to Self and Others
  7. Presuming Positive Intentions

• Multicultural, Cross-cultural & Intercultural Games & Activities

  A list of multicultural games and activities with instructions.

• Literature Circles

  A method of analysing literature in small groups, with each group member being given a specific role. Most relevant to Language and Literature, however, could be applied to other subjects.

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