Communication

ASSIGNMENT 1: Effective Conversation

Learning Target (Curricular Competencies):

  • Apply appropriate strategies to comprehend written, oral, visual, and multimodal texts. 
  • Demonstrate speaking and listening skills in a variety of formal and informal contexts for a range of purposes. 


Celeste Headlee has worked as a radio host for decades, and she knows the ingredients of a great conversation:  Honesty, brevity, clarity, and a healthy amount of listening.  In the following TED talk, she shares 10 useful rules for having better conversations.

Task :

Watch this TED talk and write down the top 10 list demonstrating your own active listening.

Assessment:

Learning Target: (Exemplary 6/6): Exemplary comprehension of the task and clear accomplishment of the objective. Answers show evidence of active reading by accurately listing ten useful rules. 

Submission: 

Use the "2.1 Effective Conversation" link on the main page of this section of the course to upload your assignment to your teacher for marking.