Teaching and assessing speaking and listening

Purpose

The purpose of this unit is to help you to review the aims of teaching speaking and listening, consider progression and explore teaching and assessing

Content

• What makes a good speaker and listener?
  • Raising the profile and pupils' awareness of good Speaking and Listening
• Developing effective teaching of Speaking and Listening
  • Modelling
  • Modelling with video resources
  • Using scripts to provide models
  • Modelling using TV and other resources
  • Questioning and prompting pupils
  • Setting and developing ground rules
  • Setting effective tasks (objective-led, clear purpose, audience and outcome, etc.)
  • The grammar of talk
  • Drama
• Understanding and using types of interactive talk
  • IRF (Initiate Response Feedback)
  • Dialogic talk
  • Introducing dialogic talk 
  • Exploratory talk
  • The benefits
• Understanding and using the range of Speaking and Listening contexts
  • Approaches to whole-class teaching of speaking and listening
  • Group work
  • Using video examples
  • Group work using a socratic approach
  • Pair work
  • Individual
• Assessment and progression in Speaking and Listening
  • Planning assessment opportunities
  • Assessment for learning
  • The range of evidence for pupils' achievements and progress in speaking and listening
  • Assessment focuses and progression in speaking and listening
  • Teacher assessment and National Curriculum levels
  • Functional skills standards
• Planning for Speaking and Listening in the classroom
  • Identifying curricular targets
  • Reviewing teaching plans
  • Action planning