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Work 911: Cooperative Communication

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site defines "Cooperative Communication" and provides examples and information as to how to apply it. Although the article is geared toward the workplace, it applies to all forms of communication, especially when negotiating....
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Focusing on Interests Rather Than Positions Conflict

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site contains six rules to follow that will reduce conflict and increase cooperation when negotiating.
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Negotiation Styles in Mediation

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This article presents five styles or methods most often used by negotiators and methods of dealing with each.
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Survival Tips on Robert's Rules of Order

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site provides tips and guides to following Robert's Rules of Order in a practical setting. Content addresses many of the issues that come to pass during committee meetings and summarizes how Robert's Rules of Order addresses each...
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Vancouver Community Net: The Citizen's Handbook: Facilitating

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Offers tips to help facilitate a meeting effectively. Provides several important suggestions along with examples and details.
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Brown University

Brown University: Debates

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Use this resource to learn how to engage in collaborative discourse and argumentation enhances student's conceptual understandings and refines their reasoning abilities. Be sure to click on the links to other resources.
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Inter Link: Achieving Effectiveness Through Team Communication

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Article discusses how to achieve better team communication. Lists the components of team communication along with barriers to effective communication. Also provides a section on feedback. SL.9-10.1d Possitive Communication Stratagies,...
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University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Guidelines for Making the Program Work

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The article provides guidelines that will help you avoid management problems.
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University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Meetings That Deal With Conflict

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The site provides guidelines for facilitating a meeting that deals with conflict.
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Boundless Communications: Helping Your Audience Listen More

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on helping your audience listen better by offering strategies such as read feedback cues, employ strategies for maintaining audience focus, use strategies to maximize audience understanding, build credibility, and...
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Boundless Communications: Conclusion

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on writing the conclusion of your speech including the role of the conclusion, summarizing ideas, signaling the end, and managing Q&A.
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Boundless Communications: Understanding Language

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This instructional activity focuses on understanding the language, both verbal and non-verbal, of your speech. It discusses the importance of language, word choice, purpose and audience, ways of thinking about language, venue and...
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Boundless Communications: Managing Q&a

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on answering questions after or during an informative speech including how to prepare for Q&A by anticipating questions and practicing with a friend or colleague and methods of receiving and answering the questions.
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Writing Process: Selecting a Topic

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson plan focuses on selecting a writing topic including your approach to the assignment, understanding the assignment, purpose of the assignment, strategies for finding a topic, and how to narrow a topic to fit the scope and...
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University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Strategic Choice in Negotiation

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This article contains information regarding four basic negotiation strategies, factors affecting the choice of strategy, and how the strategy selected affects the outcome of the negotiation.
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University of Colorado

University of Colorado: The Resolution of Conflict Book Summary

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site contains a book review of Morton Deutsch's book, "The Resolution of Conflict." The summary is mainly about conflict and how to determine if the outcome will be productive or destructive. The second half of the summary applies...
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Other

Self growth.com: Questioning Skills for Salespeople

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The article deals with the difference between open-ended and closed questioning skills. Good questioning techniques can improve business.
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Boundless Communications: Working in Groups

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A lesson on leadership styles and responsibilities of working in groups.
Unit Plan
Wisc-Online

Wisc Online: Productive Meetings

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson, students will identify the steps for preparing and facilitating a productive team meeting. The content easily transfers to various types of group discussions. SL.11-12.1b Group Rules
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Learning Skills for Interview and Group Discussion Communications

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on the skills needed for interviews and group discussions including taking notes, exploring a topic, and staying on topic. It also provides a link to a model interview. SL.11-12.6 Speaking tasks
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Students' Work Ethic Affected by Peer Groups, Desire to Be Popular

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A learning module that begins with "Students' Work Ethic Affected by Peer Groups, Desire to Be Popular" by Shankar Vedantam, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed...
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Wisc-Online

Wisc Online: Group Discussion

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
We will all encounter situations where we need to work with a group of people, whether in class, business, or socially. This slideshow reviews the different types of groups and the roles each person plays in group discussions....
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Toolpack Consulting: Effective Meetings

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
You will find lots of good advice here including what to expect during a meeting and how to deal with people.
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McGraw Hill

Mc Graw Hill: Carol's Classroom: Speaking and Listening: Prepare for Discussions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This video lesson [4:11] focuses on clear communication and active listening, essential social-emotional skills, that help lay the foundation of positive learning environments. They can develop these skills and take responsibility for...