Communication and Multimodal Literacies
Virginia SOL 8.C.1
Facilitate and contribute to collaborative discussions, practicing active listening and respectful communication.
What students need to be able to do
- Facilitating collaborative discussions
- Contributing to collaborative discussions
- Participating in sustained collaborative discussions
- Collaborating with diverse partners
- Listening actively
- Offering and seeking ideas
- Setting guidelines for presentations and discussions
- Working effectively and respectfully
- Actively contributing relevant and well-supported ideas and opinions
- Sharing responsibility for collaborative work
- Asking clarifying questions
- Responding appropriately to others' questions
- Encouraging discussion
- Fostering understanding
- Maintaining focus on topic
- Communicating agreement or tactful disagreement
- Using carefully constructed responses
- Thoughtfully paraphrasing and summarizing ideas
- Acknowledging new insights expressed by others
- Modifying own views when justified
- Valuing contributions made by each group member
- Exhibiting willingness to make necessary concessions
- Accomplishing common goals
- Using self-reflection to evaluate one's own role
- Preparing for small-group activities
- Participating in small-group activities