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STRATEGY
How to Teach Active Listening Skills
You can help your students become good listeners by teaching what it means to be an active listener who pays attention.
Here are some tips to help you teach active listening:
- Talk with your students about the importance of maintaining an open mind when someone is speaking.
They should listen closely to their teachers and not quit listening when they disagree with what they hear.
- Teach students to listen for the key topics under discussion, an important skill for students who take an active role in their learning.
- Teach your students to generate questions as they listen to you but to hold their questions until you call for them.
- If students are not sure whether they have understood the main points of a presentation, ask whether they can summarize it.
If they can summarize what they've heard, then they are competent in active listening.
Excerpted from Section Eleven, "Help Your Students Become Successful Learners," of The First-Year Teacher's Survival Guide, by Julia G. Thompson. Copyright © 2007 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. This material is used by permission of John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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