Blog #3: CCSS for Speaking and Listening/ Oral and Visual Communication
When looking at the two readings for this blog post, I first want to look at Common Core's standards for speaking and listening. Considering I am secondary ed and think I want to teach high school, I looked into grades 9-12. When going through and looking at the standards, I found that even though they are worded super logical, they are things that I already feel comfortable doing or have the basic understanding of. For example, under the 'Comprehension and Collaboration' section, I feel confident in "work with peers to promote civil, democratic discussions and decision-making, set clear goals and deadlines, and establish individual roles as needed." With that, under the 'Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas' section, I'm excited for the "...strategic use of digital media (e.g., textual, graphical, audio, visual, and interactive elements) in presentations to enhance understanding of findings, reasoning, and evidence and to add interest."
Going off of the NES reading of 'Oral and Visual Communication', there were a few things that I found interesting when going through it. There were many sections in the reading that I didn't really consider when teaching under right then. For one, how challenging it is that the US focuses more on moving conversations along, discouraging silence in a conversation, and always getting the last word in (under the Strategies for Active Listening sub-section). We definitely are a society that doesn't give students a chance to stop and take a minute to think about what they want to say before they say it. We as Americans are all about moving from conversation to conversation, instead of staying on one thing. It was also interesting that the author mentioned that we always want to get the last word in. As educators, we can't always be inclined to sound the smartest in the room and be the last one to talk so our voices are heard. We need to give students a chance to explore communication for themselves. The other important thing when reading this was that we truly need to master (or at least try to be good at) talking to students. This includes our posture, movement, gestures, eye contact, voice, volume, and pitch. These are some of the main things that will be a make or break to a students ability to learn in a classroom so it must also be something we think about as we're doing it.
Going off of the NES reading of 'Oral and Visual Communication', there were a few things that I found interesting when going through it. There were many sections in the reading that I didn't really consider when teaching under right then. For one, how challenging it is that the US focuses more on moving conversations along, discouraging silence in a conversation, and always getting the last word in (under the Strategies for Active Listening sub-section). We definitely are a society that doesn't give students a chance to stop and take a minute to think about what they want to say before they say it. We as Americans are all about moving from conversation to conversation, instead of staying on one thing. It was also interesting that the author mentioned that we always want to get the last word in. As educators, we can't always be inclined to sound the smartest in the room and be the last one to talk so our voices are heard. We need to give students a chance to explore communication for themselves. The other important thing when reading this was that we truly need to master (or at least try to be good at) talking to students. This includes our posture, movement, gestures, eye contact, voice, volume, and pitch. These are some of the main things that will be a make or break to a students ability to learn in a classroom so it must also be something we think about as we're doing it.
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