To underscore the importance of practicing good listening skills class members engage in a series of activities that model poor listening skills. In pairs and then as a whole group, class members enact different, more positive techniques and discuss how the positive techniques make them feel.

Concepts

main ideas, central ideas, listening comprehension

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Additional Tags

effective listening, listening, main idea, Classroom Management, english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Have partners craft a pair of posters, one modeling poor listening skills and one modeling good listening skills and mount their work about the classroom

Classroom Considerations

• Spend extra time debriefing the first activity of poor listening skills to make sure all class members are comfortable with the role play

Pros

• The activity gives learners a tool that will benefit them in their other classes
  

Cons

• None