Friday, February 11, 2011

Looking at the Skills of Speaking and Listening In First Grade

Some years ago, Ms. Ogonoski's first graders were struggling with the skills of listening to and speaking with one another. Ms. Ogonoski devised a rather clever lesson in which she and her class negotiated a rubric, practiced it, and then used it to assess their listening and speaking skills throughout the day.

Despite this being an experience set in a first grade classroom, I can think of no reason that this wouldn't be an important process at any grade level.

We made this video to document their experience with a very real and practical performance assessment. I hope you enjoy this one from the vault!


Listening and Speaking: Grade One from (Chris) on Vimeo.

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