1 / 51

Creating Communication-Friendly Classrooms by Jean Gross CBE (2015)

Learn how to make classrooms communication-friendly by supporting vocabulary teaching, engaging with parents, implementing intervention programs, and fostering a supportive environment. Explore tools for auditing and enhancing communication in educational settings.

tosh
Download Presentation

Creating Communication-Friendly Classrooms by Jean Gross CBE (2015)

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Creating communication-friendly classrooms Jean Gross CBE, 2015

  2. Aims • How communication-friendly are your classrooms? • Support for talk: teaching vocabulary, adult language • A reason to talk – at home : working with parents and carers • Intervention programmes for spoken language

  3. A communication-supportive environment • Have a look at the tool for auditing the environment

  4. Aims • How communication-friendly are your classrooms? • Support for talk: teaching vocabulary, adult language • Working with parents and carers • Intervention programmes for spoken language

  5. My Dad’s been in one of those....

  6. STAR - Select

  7. STAR - Select

  8. STAR – Select – from Y4 a village in India • Put the following into the three categories Country, continent, route, monsoon, river, distance, weather , home, cash crop, family, economic activity, village, landscape, climate, crops, remote, symbol, hill, houses, occupation, nucleated, market town, settlement, city, road, linear, trade, airport, agriculture

  9. Teaching vocabulary Semantic - meaning Phonological Orthographic (Written form) Motor programme Grammatical

  10. What it sounds like Begins with: Sound: Letter: Rhymes with: Number of syllables: Ends with : Sound: Letter:

  11. Structure of word Prefix, root, suffix, morphemes Unbreakable Three morphemes: un- (a morpheme that means "not"), -break (the root), and -able (a morpheme that means "can be done").

  12. What it means Where do you find it? How does it feel? Sign/symbol What does it look like? What do you do with it? What category is it?

  13. Put it in a sentence

  14. Words that go with it

  15. Aims • How communication-friendly are your classrooms? • Support for talk: teaching vocabulary, adult language • A reason to talk – at home : working with parents and carers • Intervention programmes for spoken language

  16. Oooooo.... Commenting What’s that? I hope.... What colour is it ? What noise does it make? I wonder.....

  17. Comment and elaborate

  18. Comment and elaborate

  19. Sharing a book Prompts and open ended questions e.g. • I wonder why… • I wonder what the bear is thinking… • I wonder what will happen when he gets home …

  20. Prompts and comments inviting the child to relate the book to their own experience e.g. • I don’t think I’d like a bear under my stairs … • When I was little I was scared of… • Key vocabulary • Follow -up opportunities to practise the vocabulary • Small world figures and role play props

  21. Language functions Language of : Argument Explanation Comparison Opinion Hypothesis Deduction Description Prediction Evaluation Retelling Explanation Sequencing

  22. Language functions

  23. Language functions

  24. Language functions

  25. Language functions

  26. Aims • How communication-friendly are your classrooms? • Support for talk: teaching vocabulary, adult language • A reason to talk – at home : working with parents and carers • Intervention programmes for spoken language

  27. A reason to talk – at home • ‘Ask me about’ stickers • Chatterboxes

  28. Take-home shoe-boxes Twinkle, twinkle little star • The rhyme • A card star to thread with wool • Star finger puppet • Biscuit recipe and star cutter • Glow-in-the-dark stars • Star kaleidoscope

  29. Reminiscing

  30. Films from The Communication Trust http://www.thecommunicationtrust.org.uk/resources/resources/resources-for-parents/through-the-eyes-of-a-child.aspx

  31. Sites for parents- milestones, tips, and activities • ICAN’s Talking Point (www.talkingpoint.org.uk) • National Literacy Trust’s Words for Life site (www.wordsforlife.org.uk) • www.bookstart.co.uk

  32. Dad’s reading challenge: ‘It can’t be true, can it?’ I really enjoyed coming home from work, knowing that my son had brought a story sack home from pre-school for our bedtime story.

  33. Older children... ‘talk homework’ • Loves and hates • When are the times when you get on best as a family...and fall out? • Talk about your dream home • Can you remember the day that I was born? • The best/worst thing that happened to me today was... • What cheers you up when you feel down?

  34. Aims • How communication-friendly are your classrooms? • Support for talk: teaching vocabulary, adult language • A reason to talk – at home : working with parents and carers • Intervention programmes for spoken language

  35. Three waves

  36. Evidence-based primary Wave 2 interventions • Key Stage 1 Narrative, Key Stage 2 Narrative (Black Sheep Press) • Languageland (Black Sheep Press) • Talk Boost (ICAN) • Nuffield Early Language Intervention (ICAN) • Language for Thinking (Speechmark) • SPIRALS (Routledge) • Talking Partners (www.educationworks.org.uk)

  37. Examples of impact • Talking Partners : 18 months progress compared to 5 for control group, over 10 weeks • Talk Boost : average progress 18 months over four month period

  38. A language delay intervention • Talk Boost narrows the gap between 4-7 year olds with language delay and their peers • It is a structured and robustly evidenced programme that can boost a child's communication by an average of 18 months after ten weeks of intervention • Already being used in over 2,000 primary schools www.talkboost.org.uk | talkboost@ican.org.uk | 020 7843 2515

  39. Talk Boost structure • Small group intervention work Activities for groups of 4 children, 3 times a week for 10 weeks 30 – 40 minutes each session with a Learning Support Assistant/Teaching Assistant • Whole class activities for class teacher Weekly activities linking small group activities to the class and supporting whole class speaking and listening skills • Children’s Activity Books Activities for children to take home and share with parents and carers www.talkboost.org.uk | talkboost@ican.org.uk | 020 7843 2515

  40. Talk Boost delivery • One day training course – delivered by I CAN or I CAN Licensed Tutors • TA and teachers are trained in pairs • Recommended resources per training pair: • Starter Kit – Intervention Manual, Teacher Manual, Children’s Books, etc. • Optional Talk Boost toolkit with activities and resources for use in small group sessions talkboost@ican.org.uk www.talkboost.org.uk 020 7843 2515 www.talkboost.org.uk | talkboost@ican.org.uk | 020 7843 2515

  41. Talk Boost outcomes Piloted in 30 schools as part of A Chance to Talk: • Over 80% of children with delayed language moved into the typical range of language development • 90% of these pupils met or exceeded expected progress in reading • 69% of these pupils met or exceeded expected progress in writing • 76% of these pupils met or exceeded expected progress in numeracy www.talkboost.org.uk | talkboost@ican.org.uk | 020 7843 2515

More Related