Grade Level
and Class: 8th Grade
Teen Living Skills
Area of
Concentration: Family and
Consumer Education
District
Aim:
Students will learn how
to communicate effectively.
Goal:
The class will be able to assess prior knowledge of communication
skills, and also be able to analyze what areas need improvement.
Step One:
Questions prepared and students divided into groups of four.
Questions:
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1. (Red) What communication skills are especially important
when discussing important issues?
2. (Blue) How are nonverbal messages an important part
of communication?
3. (Green) Is active listening more important in some cases than
others? Why or Why not?
4. (Purple) How do relationships benefit from effective communication?
Step Two:
In each group, each member will be given different colored writing
utensil -- red, blue, green, purple. Then
each member of each group will be given one of the above questions. The color of the ink corresponds to the code on the
questions.
Step Three:
Students are given two to three minutes to answer their questions.
When time is up, questions and responses are passed to another group.
Again, the question and response received is the same one originally
given. The corresponding member of
another group reads the response and piggybacks off the previous response to the
same question. This process continues until the original responses have been
read and answered by at least 3-4 other group members.
Step Four:
When the round robin exchange has been completed 3-4 times, sheets are
returned to the original groups. Groups
get their original responses back and individual members review the collective
responses to their original question summarizing the responses. After the collective reading for each question, the group
discusses the combined answers on al questions.
Step Five:
Each
group then arranges the answers into categories and makes any additions based on
their discussions of what other groups wrote.
Step Six:
Groups share what they discussed as a whole class, noting general
trends and ideas.
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