Teaching the Core Skills of Listening and Speaking

by Erik Palmer

Erik Palmer presents an approach to teaching long-neglected but essential language arts that is aligned with the Common Core but focused on preparing K-12 students in all subject areas for 21st century communication inside and beyond the classroom.

Genres: Professional Development

202 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 20, 2013

About the author

Erik Palmer is an author, speaker, and communication consultant from Denver, Colorado. He works with teachers, trainers, and managers showing practical ways to improve their oral communication as well as the verbal skills of those they instruct and manage. He is a frequent presenter at conferences, and has given keynotes and led workshops for districts across the US and around the world.

Prior to becoming a consultant, he had a career in business (national sales leader for a prominent commodity brokerage firm and a floor trader on a Chicago commodity exchange), and a career in the classroom (21 years in the Cherry Creek School District as a teacher of English, math, science, and civics).

Palmer is the author of Well-Spoken: Teaching Speaking to All Students (Stenhouse Publishers, 2011), Teaching the Core Skills of Listening & Speaking (ASCD, 2014), Researching in a Digital World (ASCD, 2015), Good Thinking: Teaching Argument, Persuasion, and Reasoning (Stenhouse, 2016), Own Any Occasion: Mastering the Art of Speaking and Presenting (ATD, 2017), and Before You Say A Word: A School Leader's Guide to Clear and Compelling Communication. Palmer is a program consultant for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt's Into Reading and Into Literature language arts programs.

His educational background includes Oberlin College, University of Denver Law School, and the University of Colorado.

Reviews

[Matt · Rating 4 out of 5]

A helpful guide for understanding these ELA standards. The author offers practical advice for implementing and assessing speaking and listening tasks in the classroom.

[Kari · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very helpful tips! Read this for a speech class.

[Vicki Willis · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read with some people at work to work on Collaborative Conversations... Some very good ideas in here to try in the classroom.