Success Criteria 1 I can distinguish the difference

Success Criteria: 1. I can distinguish the difference between hearing and listening 1. 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. Trying to accept or reject a persons view. ● Ex: A debate ● Empathic: listening to understand, participate in, and enhance a relationship ● Ex: Counselors and Therapists use this

● Critical: listening to comprehend ideas and information in order to achieve a specific purpose or goal ● Ex: Involves a problem, decision making ● Appreciative: listening to enjoy a speaker’s message or a performance on an artistic level ● Ex: Music, Poetry, Words of a great leader

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: Acquiring/Hearing Step 1 The reception of sound

Steps in the listening process: * Your own needs, interests, attitudes, and knowledge affects your choice to pay attention Attending/Choosing Step 2

Steps in the listening process: Your knowledge, attitudes, values, beliefs, and self-concept influence your perception * Understanding Step 3

Steps in the listening process: You first respond emotionally, then intellectually * Responding Step 4

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 Telephone Game Objectives: To increase listening skills within the group. The Story Objectives: To enhance deliberative listening skills. The Wright Family Objectives: To increase critical listening skills.