Lesson 2.F.
Listen Up!
LESSON TYPE: Mandatory (YL, S)
STUDENT HANDOUT(S):
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How to Be an Effective Listener
Rules of Listening: Person to Person
Listening Improvement Chart
Writing Activity Sheet
STANDARD:
Students will examine the characteristics of effective communication.
Students will identify three basic purposes for listening.
1. Ask students to think of a situation in which they or someone else didn’t listen
effectively and suffered the consequences. Let students share in Think-Pair-Share
groups and then have several share with the entire class including what the
consequences were of failing to listen effectively.
2. Explain to the students that most of us are better talkers than listeners. Research
indicates we listen at about a 25 percent effectiveness and efficiency level. It’s a skill
most of us need to develop.
3. Distribute and review with the students the “How to Be an Effective Listener”
handout.
4. Divide the students into three groups. Each group will plan a brief lesson to teach the
others about their assigned listening purpose and strategies. The students will make
up a situation to demonstrate their assignment including role-playing and/or other
active involvement so all group members can participate. Allow each group
approximately 15 minutes to develop their mini-lesson. (Limit the groups to 10
minutes of presentation.)
5. Allow time for students to teach their specific listening skills.
6. Have students think about some of the people they interact with at school ––
classmates, teachers, principals, bus drivers, cafeteria workers. Ask them to think
about situations in which their improvement as a listener might help them and those
people they interact with at school.
PROTEAM DREAMQUEST CURRICULUM
2-33
MODULE 2:
ACTIVITIES:
I Can Communicate
DESCRIPTOR: