The Communication Effect: How to Enhance Learning by Building Ideas and Bridging Information Gaps / Edition 1

• Ideas for cultivating classroom cultures in which authentic communication thrives • Clear descriptions and examples of the three features of authentic communication: 1. building up key ideas (claims and concepts); 2. clarifying terms and supporting ideas; and 3. creating and filling information gaps • Over 175 suggestions for using the three features of authentic communication to enhance twenty commonly used instructional activities across disciplines • Additional examples of not-so-commonly-used activities that embody the three features • Suggestions for improving four different types of teacher creativity needed to design effective lessons, activities, and assessments that maximize authentic communication Our students deserve to get the most out of each minute of each lesson. Authentic communication can help. As you read The Communication Effect and apply its ideas, you will see how much better equipped and inspired your students are to grow into the amazing and gifted people that they were meant to become.