#student communication

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Discover the top 6 strategies to enhance communication skills in students. Learn how to encourage participation, foster a safe environment,

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Cancellation Emails Add-On

Teachworks' newest add-on: Cancellation Emails

Teachworks’ newest add-on allows you to send customizable email notifications to students, parents, and/or teachers when a lesson is cancelled.  The Cancellation Emails Add-on lets you choose which recipient groups (students, parents, teachers) should receive cancellation emails, and it provides you with the option to choose whether or not to send the cancellation email for a specific lesson when…

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Communication is vital is the classroom. We need to make our expectations clear, and we need to ensure that students know what is coming next in our lesson plans so they are prepared to learn and participate. We know that explicit instruction, advance organizers and information are very helpful to our students; for projects and assignments, do up an in-depth outline of what the students need to do and how they will be graded. Take this Heritage Fair outline, used in my Grade 8 classes during my internship, as an example. In this outline (which you should go though in detail with your class), students are clearly told what hey need to do (such as creating visual and written components), things they need to be aware of (such as time frame and theme), information on how they will be graded (specific project components as well as rubrics are included), and other critical points that students need to be aware of (like permission forms and due dates). By communicating your expectations in explicit ways, such as creating a detailed project sheet, you know that you have sufficiently informed your students on what to do and how to proceed. You should go through these outlines with the class, and as you do, questions can be answered as you go, and any confusion can be cleared up before the assignment begins. 

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Rubrics, Rubrics Everywhere!

When I create an assignment, I always create a rubric to go along with this. While teaching Grade 8 Social Studies, I asked students to create a video game cover about a video game that takes place during World War I. This was part of an assignment from which students had to pick 3 of 9 smaller assignments to complete. Out of the 8 groups of 2-3 students, 7 groups picked to do the video game cover. 

When I passed out the major assignment (that is, a small booklet with all 9 of the assignments in it) every assignment had its own rubric. There were clear expectations communicated to the students before they had to choose. For this particular sub-assignment, I asked students to include certain items that are part of a typical video game cover. However, since the video game had take place during World War I, the cover also needed to include accurate depictions of items such as tanks, uniforms, weaponry and landscapes. 

By communicating my clear expectations, students had fun and were very successful this this particular assignment. Upon reviewing the marks and completed rubric, I noticed that none of the groups got below 90%. I gave the students the rubric when the assignment was passed out, and ensured that they used it a check list of sorts. This way they were able to communicate what I had asked of them, which resulted in some great marks and very artistic video game covers. 

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The term communication disorders encompasses a wide variety of problems in language, speech, and hearing. This article defines them.

This page provides a list of communication disorders. Helpful for educators who are unsure of what is in front of them. By figuring out the difference, educators can address and design lessons accordingly.