No Pens Day Wednesday - The Communication Trust
No Pens Day Wednesday - The Communication Trust
No Pens Day Wednesday - The Communication Trust
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Teachers’ Activity Pack<br />
<strong>No</strong> <strong>Pens</strong> <strong>Day</strong><br />
<strong>Wednesday</strong><br />
28 September<br />
2011<br />
Role-play 3 (assembly leader<br />
and pupil 2)<br />
• Do the same as role-play two,<br />
and correct your listening<br />
behaviour in light of the feedback<br />
and discussion about your poor<br />
listening skills, for example face<br />
the pupil, look interested, nod<br />
etc. This time however show poor<br />
talking skills such as responding<br />
to what they say on a non-related<br />
topic and speaking really fast and<br />
then too quietly and don’t let<br />
them have a turn<br />
• Again, open it up to the pupils<br />
to give feedback and highlight<br />
that you may have been showing<br />
good listening behaviours but<br />
you weren’t showing good talking<br />
behaviours<br />
• What do they think would be the<br />
impact on what you learned from<br />
the pupil?<br />
Role-play 4 (assembly leader<br />
to pupil 3)<br />
• <strong>The</strong>n do one more role-play<br />
with another child and have a<br />
conversation, showing good<br />
listening and speaking<br />
• Check if that was OK with the<br />
pupils and why<br />
• Ask if they think you would have<br />
learned more this way?<br />
How did it feel?<br />
Ask the three pupils involved how<br />
they felt when you were having<br />
a conversation with them to<br />
highlight the impact it can have<br />
when a person doesn’t listen, take<br />
turns or speak clearly.<br />
Summary<br />
Recap the skills you had to put into<br />
practice to make your conversation<br />
work well and for you to listen and<br />
learn and remember what your<br />
partner was telling you. Explain<br />
that writing is an important skill<br />
but that speaking and listening are<br />
also really important, for helping<br />
you think things through, to learn<br />
about other people as well as<br />
for making friends and working<br />
together. <strong>No</strong> <strong>Pens</strong> <strong>Day</strong> <strong>Wednesday</strong><br />
is a chance to listen and speak to<br />
each other and put these skills into<br />
practice.<br />
Adapt for different ages<br />
Adapt the assembly to make<br />
it more age-appropriate – for<br />
example, when having the<br />
conversation role-plays, start<br />
looking at a mobile phone to<br />
indicate poor listening skills.<br />
Discuss how the internet and<br />
mobile phones are an important<br />
part of learning but mean we<br />
forget to interact, look at each<br />
other and listen to what other<br />
people are saying.<br />
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