MODULE 1 - PDST
MODULE 1: COMMUNICATIONS AND THE WORKING WORLD
Core Skills –Communication For Service GNVQs Collins Educational
World of Work LCVP Resource Materials
SWAY-(Skills Work And Youth) Irish Congress Of Trade Unions. This resource is out of print but each school got a copy.
Some web-resources
resources
connexions-
MODULE 2: COMMUNICATIONS AND ENTERPRISE
Business Communications –Nickson and Siddons (Made Simple Books)
Communication Workshop- A Manual ( Heinmann Educational)
Communication Skills – Stephen Daunt
Communications – James Simms ( Oxford GNVQ Core Skills )
Enterprise Encounter - Second Level Support Services
Galaxy 2 – Mentor
LCVP Programme Materials
Some web-resources
bbc.co.uk/skillswise
.uk
.uk/resources/primaryschools/aid_debt_and_trade
co-opfairtrade.co.uk/schools_pack/download.asp
disney.hotshot/hsb.html
MODULE 3: THE COMMUNICATIONS MEDIA
Studying the Media (2nd Edition ) O’ Sullivan, Dutton, Raynor (Arnold)
How to Read a Film – James Monaco
Introduction to Film Studies Jill Mendes – Routledge
Media Studies: A Guide For Teachers Routledge
Some web resources
irishfilm.ie
news-and-media
lerning/microsites/w/waywithwords
.uk/education/teaching/&fms/tvsoaps/
.uk
MODULE 4: CRITICAL LITERACY AND COMPOSITION
English Gold 2 Hodder and Stoughton
Communicate! Angela Doyle Gill & Macmillan
Real Cool Poems to Grow Up With Martello
Reel 2 Reel Transition Year Film Studies Edco
The Write Stuff English and Media Studies for Transition Year Gill & Macmillan
The Open Door Series of adapted and original fiction from Irish authors:
Sad Song
In High Germany
Maggie’s Story
Jesus and Billy are off to Barcelona
Not Just For Christmas
Top Ten Shakespeare Stories Scholastic
Web Resources
birchfield.co.uk
.uk
coolreads.co.uk
frankie-meehan
learn.co.uk
.uk/campaign/index.html
literacygoesmadd.co.uk
meettheauthor.co.uk
teachernet.co.uk
teachingideas.co.uk
marks.co.uk
English and Communications: Suggestions and Resources for Week 1 and 2
Texts
World of Work – LCVP resource materials
SWAY (Skills, Work and Youth) – resource from ICTU
Communication Skills – Stephen Daunt, Gill & McMillan
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon, Definitions. (An extraordinary novel about a boy with Asperger’s Syndrome and his quest to communicate with and understand the world)
Websites
connected-
(go to communication skills)
connexions-
basic-skills.co.uk
Comedies/Films (These may be used to initiate a discussion on aspects of communication)
Mr Bean
Fawlty Towers
Friends
My Left Foot
Big Brother
Cars (An animated film – examine how the eyes communicate)
Active methodologies
Charades – plan and analyse the communication process
Photocopies of faces and/or gestures from magazines/newspapers. Students should guess the emotion being expressed
Listening skills
Teacher tells a story/reads short article to the class while 3 - 5 students, (labelled A, B, C, D etc) are positioned or engaged so they cannot hear the story. Student A is recalled and the story is recounted by a member of the class. Then student B is recalled, the story is again re-told, this time student A. Then student C is recalled and the story is this time told by student B, and so on. When the final student recounts the story, a discussion of barriers and aids to listening skills should take place.
Visitor exercise (in school and/or out of school)
Member of toastmasters
Local employer
Past pupil
Library
FÁS Centre
Post-Leaving Cert College
Voluntary organisation
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