Supporting teaching
Purpose
The purpose of this unit is to help you to consider the aims of teaching speaking and listening, ways of supporting the teaching and learning of speaking and listening in the classroom and teaching aspects of speaking and listening.
Content
- What makes a good speaker and listener?
- 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
- Supporting ground rules
- Setting effective tasks (objective-led, clear purpose, audience and outcome, etc.)
- Assessment for learning (AfL)
- Understanding and using types of interactive talk
- Understanding and using the range of speaking and listening contexts