Activating the Audience: Teaching Speaking in a Hybrid Learning Environment

The remote classroom has offered many challenges for student engagement with speaking pedagogies. Nevertheless, it has also created possibilities that can apply in terms of how to design a learning environment that allows for guided, interactive, and self-regulated learning experiences as we transition back to the face-to-face teaching and learning context.
This workshop will provide participants with a critical context through which to think about teaching speaking and listening skills.

Participants will leave with:
– Strategies for creating a blended classroom climate in which students feel comfortable participating actively, including in written and oral formats and self-regulated or instructor-guided learning activities
– Effective practices for scaffolding the teaching of speaking skills in blended learning environments and how learning technologies impact or facilitate these processes.
– A range of instructor experiences, sample assignments, and assessments that engages listening and speaking in oral contexts from informal and small group discussion to individual oral presentations
– Participants are encouraged to bring specific challenges, success stories, and assignments or assessments they would like to discuss to the workshop.

This workshop is a follow up to “Activating the Audience: Teaching Speaking in the Remote Classroom” (Feb 2021). It incorporates the feedback shared after that workshop, and expands to the context of the hybrid learning environment. All participants are welcome.