EQ AND STRUCTURED SPEAKING:

HOW TO INCREASE THE ACHIEVEMENTOF ALL

Presented by Wes Kriesel, CEO/President Trusted Coaching

August 3, 2009

Today we are meeting to …

Introduce EQ as a necessary element of equity work

Understand how listening and speaking (re)produce social dynamics and power relationships

Share strategies for structured speaking

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Outcomes

Norms for TRUST

Trust yourself.

Resonate with the conversation.

Understand different perspectives.

Set your mind on the possibilities.

Transform yourself. Trust Makes All the Difference!

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Coaching Orientation

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Trusted Coaching is …

-strengths-based

-solution-focused

Where does EQ enter?

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Teaching/modeling - communication skills

- expectations for interactions - active listening - looping - attunement

Speaking and Power

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James Paul Gee’s “New Work Order”Why corporate training fails:The ubiquitous IRE model of

speaking.

Initiate-Respond-Evaluate

Speaking and Power

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The primary model of verbal interaction in schools.

Lecture. (teacher lectures)

Initiate. (teacher asks a question)

Respond. (student responds)

Evaluate. (teacher evaluates student answer)

L.I.R.E

How to Structure Speaking?

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Two Strategies:

Communication Line – teaches and models active listening, paraphrasing, positive body language, looping, attunement

FIND –builds group consensus, processes emotions, scaffolds discussions to higher

order thinking

How to Structure Speaking?

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CLICK!How do you manage

student engagement?

Contact, Listen, Integrate, Communicate, Keep it going!

Contact Regulate CONTACT and organize the physical spacebetween students

How do you want students to arrange

themselves physically?

Listen Model how to LISTEN to the teacher and to peers

How do you want students to engage

when not speaking?

Integrate

Demonstrate how to INTEGRATE two or more students working together, including roles, speaking turns, andpriorities.

How do you want students to speak?

Connect Explicitly communicate the content and language you want students to CONNECT to this activity (includingquestion prompts to address desired level of thinking, grammatical structures to address language objective,and subject matter content)

How do you want students to use

language?

Keep it going Preserve and improve the process to KEEPstudents engaged.

How can students improve the process?

A Structured Speaking Strategy

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Communication Line Contact: Students line up in 1 line (by teacher criteria, i.e., order of birthday Jan-Dec, distance of birthplace from school). Teacher folds line in half and has one end follow teacher down to the other end, doubling the line on itself, matching each student up with a partner.  Listen: Teacher describes and models eye contact, smiling, nodding as “active listening” behavior. Integrate: Teacher labels one side of the line Partner A and the other side of the line as Partner B. Partner A speaks while Partner B listens actively. Then roles switch. Connect: Teacher provides question, prompt, or sentence frame with grammar structure or academic language to use.  Keep it Going: Teacher asks students what went well, what they learned, and how the class might improve the activity. Teacher affirms positive academic language and behaviors observed.

A Structured Speaking Strategy

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FIND: A 4-level Debrief Protocol 

Facts: Statements of fact, objective observations, things that could be photographed or recorded Internal Connections: Feelings, emotions, memories New Meanings: Interpretations, opinions, judgments Decisions: “I will….” a personal commitment to action  

Closure

1. Evaluations on today’s session.2. Other announcements.3. THANK YOU!!!

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