Summer School: Active Listening

What is active listening?

• Waiting for your turn to speak

• An involuntary act of hearing

• Listening while moving around

• Conscious effort to listen and understand

How is hearing different than listening?

• Hearing is involuntary. It happens when you are close to the source of sound.

• Listening is involuntary. Hearing takes effort.

• Hearing only uses on ear. Listening uses both.

• There is no difference

What level of listening should you strive for during class?

• Hearing

• Listening

• Active listening

• Ultra-sonic super listening

Why is active listening important?

• It helps students focus

• it helps improve understanding

• It improves BOTH focus and understanding

• Trick question. Its not important.

Why doe active Listening usually result in more on task behavior?

• It makes being off-task more noticeable to the teacher

• Off task behavior often comes from boredom. Active listening lessens boredom.

• It makes others ignore you

• It makes you care about school work

How does active listening boost understanding?

• It gives the listener more available information

• It allows you to pick up on small details

• It helps you get nonverbal cues

• All of these are correct

Active listening gets you the _________________________ and the _____________________.

• Active listening gets you the BIG PICTURE and the SMALL DETAILS.

• Active listening gets you the ARGUMENT and the COUNTER-ARGUMENT

• Active listening gets you the RANCH DRESSING and the BLUE CHEESE.

• Active listening gets you the MELODY and the HARMONY.

How does active listening boost focus?

• It gives you tunnel vision

• It allows you to hear the speaker more loudly

• It gives the mind and body a goal.

• It removes all distractions

What requires more body parts, hearing or active listening?

• Hearing because it uses both ears

• Hearing because it uses ears and hands

• Active listening uses ears and eyes

• Active Listening because it iuses the whole body

What three mental tasks can be used during active listening?

• Relax, kick back, and zone out

• Syntehzise, analyze, and abstractions

• Playback, rephrase, and question

• Sick, dying, and dead.