1. COMMUNICATION SKILLS I April 22, 2014

2. Reminder: Podcast Episode 3 Deadline: Monday April 28 (11:59 p.m.)

3. Today - Task 1 reflection - Group discussion (continued)

5. Task 1 Reflection Looking at your self-evaluation sheet, discuss your thoughts about Task 1 in groups. - What did you learn about yourself through Task 1? - What were your strengths in this presentation? - What do you still need to improve on? - If you could do the task again, what would you do differently? - On a scale of 1 (bad) – 10 (excellent), how would you rate your overall performance in Task 1? - Did you notice an improvement over your practice presentation?

7. Disagreeing - Something many people hate to do, BUT …something necessary to a productive discussion. - If everyone agrees, you will only examine one side of the topic.

8. Disagreeing = Phrases “I’m sorry, I really can’t agree…” “I’m not so sure…” “I disagree with you/that” “Well, that’s one way of looking at it, but…” “I don’t really agree with that.”

9. Disagreeing = Phrases Remember, it’s not enough to only disagree. You should QUALIFY your disagreement. i.e., Dave: “If you ask me, Alaska should be Russian territory. There are historical documents to support this.” Dina: “I really can’t agree with that. If you closely examine documents from both Russia and the U.S., you will find that the American documents are much earlier than the Russian ones, therefore…

10. Disagreeing - Practice - Disagree with your partner and QUALIFY your disagreement. - Discuss the topic with your partner after disagreeing.

11. Disagreeing Devil’s advocate

12. Task 2

13. Task 2: Discussion (Panel Discussion) Topic: Mandatory Christian education at KAC.

14. Task 2: Discussion (Panel Discussion) Today: Practice making questions and discussing. Topic: Mandatory Christian education at KMU. With your group, write 5 questions to use for discussing this topic.

15. Topic: Mandatory Christian education at KAC - Why is Christian education necessary? - Is Christian education being used to provide knowledge or to make students Christian? - What’s the purpose of Christian education? - What are the main points of Christian education? - What do you think about mandatory Christian education? - How many students support mandatory Christian education? - How often should students take Christian classes? - What can be learned from Christian education? - IF you do not support Christian education, what could replace it? - Can you tell me the history of Christian ed,. At KMU/KAC? - Who benefits from Christian ed.? - How do students feel about mandatory Christian ed? - How should be approach this with students of other religions? - What are the outcomes of mandatory Christian ed.?

16. Homework “Tasks” section on website: 1. Read the Task 2 information sheet 2. Do the homework assignment Bring notes and answers to next class.