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- Follow these tips for the active listening activity: 1 - Maintain Eye Contact. 2 - Let the person speaking complete the sentence before talking. 3 - Focus on the other person's comments rather than think about what you will say next. 4 - Make a statement that shows you were listening.
- Wow, I never thought about how much my own thoughts cross my mind as I am trying to listen to someone else speak.
- The activity we did in class today was to help my students become better active listeners. Each student's active response form should include the impact words they heard, the facial expressions they noticed from their partner, and the body language they noticed from their partner.
- Many learners have become experts at inactive listening. They are physically present, but mentally somewhere else. So it is important to teach them strategies to become active listeners.
- Mnemonics give the brain a "hook" to pull out difficult-to-remember information in the easiest way. When I was learning orders of operations in math, my teachers taught us "Please Excuse my Dear Aunt Sally" to help us remember (parenthesis, exponents, multiplication, division, addition, and subtraction).
- I need to incorporate more mnemonics. This is a great memory tool that an help my students recall information
- Honey, I'm trying to help my students become better listeners and improve their writing. Do you have any suggestions?
- First listen; let the students explain their work and reflect on it more naturally through conversation. Then, be specific; meet each individual learner at their need level. This could be just coming up with a topic. Finally, revise, revise, revise. Push the writers to add more detail and information that they may have thought of during the writing process.
- Conferencing?
- Conferencing is a great way to improve their writing!
- The strategies include: maintain eye content with the teacher; focus on the content, not the delivery; avoid emotional involvement; avoid distractions; treat listening as a challenging mental task; stay active by asking mental questions; use the gap between the rate of speech and your rate of thought.
- I just read about some more listening strategies online! These would be great to share with my students as we learn to become better listeners.
- When I was doing some research online, I read about a great strategy called "Give Me Five" for students who need specific reminders for maintaining behaviors while listening.
- Each finger represents various areas that will help students improve their listening skills. One: eyes on the speaker. Two: mouth quiet. Three: body still. Four: ears listening. Five: hands free such as putting down a cell phone.
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