Communication and Language Skills as Elements of Educational Curriculum for Life
This page outlines teaching curriculum ideas for Communication and Language Skills as elements of the “Sharing” category of the Curriculum for Life component of the open source Education for Life Program. This curriculum is meant as a globally collaborative and ever-expanding archive of ideas to be combined with the Teaching Strategies for Life component, and Learning Tools and Toys for Life component, to create endless Lesson Plans for Life purposed to grow and evolve what we feel will be the most comprehensive, effective, and diversely applicable free-education program and open source and free-shared project-launch usable education blueprint in the world.
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COMMUNICATION AND LANGUAGE SKILLS CURRICULUM
The following is a list of communication and language skills curriculum topics divided into 2 categories: “Verbal Communication” and “Non-verbal Communication.” If you have an idea or section that you believe should be included here, please send it to us using our Suggestions Page. Visit our Lesson Plans Page for lesson plans designed to integrate this curriculum.
NOTE: Curriculum with asterisks is curriculum we consider “core curriculum” that is central to the lesson plan design process. To identify these subjects we adopted the California Department of Education guidelines (because they are some of the most comprehensive and strict in the nation), added in the national SAT/ACT expectations for grade 7 and beyond, referenced the US Common Core State Standards Documents, and then double checked our curriculum and goals against the best selling and #1 teacher recommended Spectrum Test Prep workbook series. Curriculum with “*” is curriculum identified through these methods as foundational to 1st-6th grade learning. Curriculum with “**” is curriculum identified through these methods as foundational to 7th-12th learning.
Verbal Communication
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- What is verbal communication?*
- What is the history of verbal communication?*
- The purpose and significance of verbal communication
- Ancient and modern public speakers and their accomplishments
- Communication cycle evolution and models of verbal communication**
- Paralanguage and prosody (rhythm, stress, intonation of speech, tone of voice, timbre, etc.)**
- Differentiation of effective versus ineffective verbal communication*
- Vocabulary building tricks and techniques for mastery*
- Ownership Language: Labeling Our Communications *
- Languages and nations of the world, exploration and comparison
- “Lects”: dialects, idiolect, topolects, ethnolects, sociolects, etc.**
- Learning a new language, considerations and specifics for beginners*
- Learning a new language, considerations and specifics for mastery**
- Active listening: The other half of verbal communication*
- Styles in speaking for particular social settings (registers)*
- Artificial / constructed languages exploration and design
- Public speaking skills and the art of public speaking**
- Persuasive speaking skills and the art of eloquence**
- Teaching through speaking and the art of professional presentations**
- Organizing discussions and groups purposed for sharing
- Face-to-face communication (intimate, friendly, etc.)
- Dynamics of group communication**
- Dynamics of business communication
- Being impeccable with our word (see also Honesty and Integrity curriculum)
- See also: Sharing curriculum
- See also: Community and Social Skills curriculum
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Non-Verbal Communication
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- What is non-verbal communication**
- The purpose and significance of non-verbal communication**
- Communication by means of writing*
- Communication by means of sign languages
- Communication by means of Braille alphabet / code
- Styles in writing for particular social settings (registers)**
- Facial expression (eye contact, mimicry, etc.) and body language (posture, gestures, etc.)
- Communication through touch (haptic communication)
- Communication through the prism of time (chronemics)
- Communication through the prism of proximity (proxemics)
- Object communication (clothing, hairstyles, jewelry, etc.)
- Communication through icons (infographics, symbolism, etc.)
- Non-verbal communication in written texts (handwriting style, spatial arrangement of words, the use of emoticons, etc.)
- Sense enhancement: seeing, smelling, tasting, feeling, hearing, intuiting as a form of communication with your environment (see also Senses on the Diversity Page)
- Technology and communication**
- Music as a means of communication
- Sculpture as a means of communication
- Dance and movement as a means of communication
- Painting and drawing as means of communication
- Nonhuman communication (cell signaling, cellular communication, chemical transmissions, quorum sensing, etc.)
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