What are the 4Cs?
What is Communication?
Communication
Communication begins with the body and the voice and extends to representations and technologies that are
written, visual, aural, tactile and multimodal.
Communication is linked to identity formation, relationships, power, culture and agency.
The Communication Crystal
The Communication Crystal coherence maker scaffolds an approach to understanding adn developing communication skills. A crystal prism, with its many surfaces and angles, is used to descrive communication because, like a crystal, communication is multifaceted, and refracts and reflects messaging in myriad ways”
Transforming Schools, Pg 5
How to teach and support Communication
in classrooms, staff rooms and school communities
In their book Transforming Schools, Jefferson and Anderson discuss incorporating multimodal communication methods, in an embodied manner, across all educational subjects.
“...communication skills [are] essential pedagogical content knowledge in any curriculum area. ”