Interactivity
- Questioning pupils
- Setting tasks
- Creating opportunities for the presentation of pupils work to other audiences
- Developing and exercising communication skills
- Creating an awareness of audience
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Questioning pupils
- Quality of questioning
- ‘Thinking time’
- Distribution of questions
- Engaging all students in the process
- Listening
- Withholding judgement
Setting tasks
- Discussion
- Investigation
- Designing and making
- Testing
- Writing – stories, articles, poems, songs
- Researching
- Practising/developing a new skill
- Tasks that encourage – manipulation of information, enquiry, reasoning, creative thinking and evaluation
Creating opportunities for the presentation of pupils work to other audiences
- Live presentation to peers/other adults
- Presenting to remote or local audiences
- Web-casting, pod-casting presentations
- Presenting to ‘experts’ or specific institutions
Developing and exercising communication skills
- Verbal Skills
- Non verbal communication skills
- Listening skills
Creating an awareness of audience
- Research background information
- Cultural, linguistic and historical understanding
- Empathy, sensitivity and self-awareness