Success Criteria:

1. I can distinguish the difference between hearing and listening

2. I can utilize the steps of the listening process to appropriately respond to a communication

TEKS:

(1)(G): “Identify the components of the listening process.”

Objective:

Student Will Be Able To: Demonstrate their knowledge of listening skills to complete an activity.

“We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.”

- Epictetus

Listening: It is a physical and psychological process that involves choosing to listen, understanding, and responding to symbolic messages from others.

Open your ears!!!

4 Kinds of Listening:Deliberative: listening to understand, analyze, and

evaluate

Empathic: listening to understand, participate in, and enhance a relationship

Critical: listening to comprehend ideas and information in order to achieve a specific purpose or goal

Appreciative: listening to enjoy a speaker’s message or a performance on an artistic level

The 3 Characteristics of Listening:

Active: You participate, listen attentively, and provide feedback Strive to understand & remember messages

Passive: Listener doesn’t actively participate and think they can

absorb information but not contribute They place responsibility of communication on the

speaker

Impatient: Short bursts of active listening is interrupted by

noise/distractions They intend (usually) to pay attention, but allow their

minds to wander

Factors that affect the listening process:

Noise: Temporary distractions Train, baby, loud car, sick, tired, etc.

Barriers: BLOCKS listening & understanding Unfamiliar language, biases, tuning out, stress,

ignorance.

THINK, PAIR, SHARE

A teacher must overcome the sound of a lawnmower while teaching.

A loud radio is preventing a child from hearing his or her parent's instructions.

A student dislikes a teacher and refuses to listen in class.

A foreign exchange student does not understand the teacher's directions.

A student has a cold and cannot concentrate on the lesson in class.

A student stayed up watching television until 3 A.M. and is falling asleep in class.

Steps in the listening process:

Step 1

* Not everyone hears the same way (frequencies/hard of hearing)

Acquiring/Hearing

The reception of sound

Steps in the listening process:

Step 2

* Your own needs, interests, attitudes, and knowledge affects your choice to pay attention

Attending/Choosing

The act of choosing to focus attention on the message

Steps in the listening process:

Step 3

* Your knowledge, attitudes, values, beliefs, and self-concept influence your perception

Understanding

Deciding what the message means to you

Steps in the listening process:

Step 4

* You first respond emotionally, then intellectually

Responding

Your reaction to the message. It can be emotional and intellectual

Memory:(The process of retaining or recalling information)

Immediate Memory: Recalling information for a brief period of time

Short Term Memory: Recalling information for carrying out a routine or

daily task

Long Term Memory: Recalling information from past experience

7 Common Roadblocks to Listening:

Tuning out dull topics Faking attention Yielding to distractions Criticizing delivery/physical appearance Jumping to conclusions Interrupting Overreacting to emotional words

Activity: Get in groups of 6 Make A Story

ObjectivesTo increase listening skills within the group.

MethodThis game is similar to the telephone game.

While sitting in a small circle, participants are asked to construct a story by each participant adding one line at a time (e.g., As he got off his horse, he saw a big rabbit).

This continues with each additional participant adding another line.

GRADE CHECK