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Teaching speaking and listening

Introduction to the Teaching Speaking and Listening materials. Teaching Speaking and Listening is designed to help you improve your teaching of speaking and listening so that your pupils develop into confident and skilful speakers and listeners.

Subject leaders

This page introduces subject leaders to Teaching speaking and listening . It includes the 'background and context paper' and a video introduction. It also links to various areas within the subject leader section.
Teachers

This page introduces teachers to Teaching speaking and listening . It includes the 'background and context paper' and a video introduction. It also links to the 'teaching and assessing speaking and listening' unit.
Teaching assistants

This page introduces teaching assistants to Teaching speaking and listening. It includes the 'background and context paper' and a video introduction. It also links to the 'supporting teaching' unit.

Teaching speaking and listening for subject leaders: Viewpoints on the importance of speaking and listening

First page of a section of video clips that give the viewpoints of senior leaders, subject leaders, teachers, teaching assistants and pupils on the importance of speaking and listening.

Teaching speaking and listening for subject leaders: Speaking and listening lessons

Six speaking and listening lesson clips, ranging across Years 7 to 11, give a quick overview of the structure, main focus and content of each lesson. They illustrate dialogic teaching, modelling, persuasive talk and interviewing, and Socratic talk.

Teaching speaking and listening for subject leaders: Leading and managing the improvement of speaking and listening

Planning unit for subject leaders that will help improve the teaching of speaking and listening. A downloadable version of the entire unit is also available.

Dialogic teaching: reviewing progress

A video example of how a review of dialogic teaching could progress.

Monitoring speaking and listening

Monitoring advice for the subject leader of speaking and listening.

Action planning for speaking and listening

Resources for use after the initial review of your department's practice and provision for speaking and listening. Once the speaking and listening review sheet is completed, teachers can use these resources to identify priorities for future development and to decide what, how and when they will be implemented, who will be responsible for them, the impact they should have on pupils' skills and learning, and the resources that can support the development.

Speaking and listening departmental review process

Sequence of steps leading to an audit of current speaking and listening practices.

Planning for speaking and listening

To be effective, the teaching of speaking and listening needs to be planned.
Knowledge about speaking and listening

In addition teachers knowing about and employing a range of strategies when teaching speaking and listening, it can also be helpful to know and share the terminology and grammar of speaking and listening
Speaking and listening: reviewing assessment, recording and reporting in the department

This section is intended to help you to review practice and provision in your department so that you are well-placed to take further actions if necessary.

Teaching speaking and listening

Teaching speaking and listening

Subject leaders

Teachers

Teaching assistants

Teaching speaking and listening for subject leaders: Viewpoints on the importance of speaking and listening

Teaching speaking and listening for subject leaders: Speaking and listening lessons

Teaching speaking and listening for subject leaders: Leading and managing the improvement of speaking and listening

Dialogic teaching: reviewing progress

Monitoring speaking and listening

Action planning for speaking and listening

Speaking and listening departmental review process

Planning for speaking and listening

Knowledge about speaking and listening

Speaking and listening: reviewing assessment, recording and reporting in the department

Teaching and assessing speaking and listening

Teaching and assessing speaking and listening: Unit resource list

Understanding and using types of interactive talk

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