I would also be interested to know whether this section about “listening” has had an effect on your own listening practice – within the classroom as well as with colleagues. I have become much more aware of the different modes of listening and of how my attention and inner attitude effect the communication process.
Thank you for the Classroom materiel, it will be a very helpful guide for the first try,
but I wonder how to organize the recording of several groups in one classroom…
I`m looking forward to try these ideas in my future class. Learning to listen was a topic in this chapter that got stuck in my head, because I feel like listening needs a lot of focus, an open mind and a quiet environment – which means it is a quite challenging task. Excursions into nature might also be helpful to practice the pupils listening skills, before starting to implement meaningful audio material.
Thank you for the various classroom material. I had my difficulties with listening comprehensions when I was a Student. I feel like we didn´t get the right listening skills preparations beforehead. We startet with audio material in Highschool and I was swamped by it.
I would like to preserve my future class from this experience.
I hope I can introduce a few of the ideas from this course in my class.
I think listening well does not always happen automatically. It can often be quite a conscious activity and one that many of us need to practice more. Often, we are already thinking of what to say next when someone else is talking. At the same time, I think “generative listening” can be a sign of a really good conversation, at least the way I experience it. When the other person and I are so in tune that the conversation just flows and the ideas come one after the other. However, even then I think it is still important to remind oneself to practice good listening. – I also experience that it is easier to connect with and listen to some people than others. If it happens to be less easy with someone, I think we can try to become more conscious of listening carefully to understand the other person well. This is something I think everyone can practice more in daily life.
To be honest I wasn’t a good listener in class because I was always too fast in my mind, got bored and took off into my own world of thoughts until something interesting the teacher or some fellow student said struck my mind.
At the university it was much easier to listen because everything was new and exciting.
I really started to think about listening after I had my children. Sometimes I found myself not really listening and just nodding because I was tired. It did not feel right so I changed my attitude and either listened or told them that I could not at the moment.
This is how I have been listening ever since.
In my childhood, it highly depended on the teacher if I was listening – or not. This is particularly interesting in regards to the 4.4 journal exercise, as I came up with a very long list of qualities that might be required by teachers to ensure that children can invent good grades of listening:
Concentration on the topic at hand, and the preparations
Eye contact to the children
Passion for the topic
Respect for each one of the children
Authenticity, being yourself
Connect with the children
Paint pictures through storytelling
Voice modulation to make it more interesting
Knowing your audience (in this case each single child)
Adjusting to the level of each kid, to embrace them, leaving noone behind
For me, listening (to another person) needs patience and also empathy. It is important to take a step back and let the other finish without judging too soon.
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I would also be interested to know whether this section about “listening” has had an effect on your own listening practice – within the classroom as well as with colleagues. I have become much more aware of the different modes of listening and of how my attention and inner attitude effect the communication process.
Thank you for the Classroom materiel, it will be a very helpful guide for the first try,
but I wonder how to organize the recording of several groups in one classroom…
I`m looking forward to try these ideas in my future class. Learning to listen was a topic in this chapter that got stuck in my head, because I feel like listening needs a lot of focus, an open mind and a quiet environment – which means it is a quite challenging task. Excursions into nature might also be helpful to practice the pupils listening skills, before starting to implement meaningful audio material.
Thank you for the various classroom material. I had my difficulties with listening comprehensions when I was a Student. I feel like we didn´t get the right listening skills preparations beforehead. We startet with audio material in Highschool and I was swamped by it.
I would like to preserve my future class from this experience.
I hope I can introduce a few of the ideas from this course in my class.
I think listening well does not always happen automatically. It can often be quite a conscious activity and one that many of us need to practice more. Often, we are already thinking of what to say next when someone else is talking. At the same time, I think “generative listening” can be a sign of a really good conversation, at least the way I experience it. When the other person and I are so in tune that the conversation just flows and the ideas come one after the other. However, even then I think it is still important to remind oneself to practice good listening. – I also experience that it is easier to connect with and listen to some people than others. If it happens to be less easy with someone, I think we can try to become more conscious of listening carefully to understand the other person well. This is something I think everyone can practice more in daily life.
To be honest I wasn’t a good listener in class because I was always too fast in my mind, got bored and took off into my own world of thoughts until something interesting the teacher or some fellow student said struck my mind.
At the university it was much easier to listen because everything was new and exciting.
I really started to think about listening after I had my children. Sometimes I found myself not really listening and just nodding because I was tired. It did not feel right so I changed my attitude and either listened or told them that I could not at the moment.
This is how I have been listening ever since.
In my childhood, it highly depended on the teacher if I was listening – or not. This is particularly interesting in regards to the 4.4 journal exercise, as I came up with a very long list of qualities that might be required by teachers to ensure that children can invent good grades of listening:
Concentration on the topic at hand, and the preparations
Eye contact to the children
Passion for the topic
Respect for each one of the children
Authenticity, being yourself
Connect with the children
Paint pictures through storytelling
Voice modulation to make it more interesting
Knowing your audience (in this case each single child)
Adjusting to the level of each kid, to embrace them, leaving noone behind
For me, listening (to another person) needs patience and also empathy. It is important to take a step back and let the other finish without judging too soon.