Recorded on February 13, 2013

Speaking and listening are keys to developing disciplinary knowledge and skills. This webinar reviews the two major clusters in the Common Core Speaking and Listening Standards: collaborative conversations and presentations of knowledge and ideas.

Webinar presenters discuss methods to facilitate more focused, purposeful, collaborative conversations between students and for fostering discourse; and how students can present their knowledge more formally in face-to-face and digital environments.

Specifically, webinar participants will:

• Acquire a working knowledge of the Speaking and
• Listening Standards and their value
• Examine research-based methods for promoting speaking and listening for learning in the disciplines
• Learn how to use technology to support speaking and listening for secondary students