1. Success Criteria:
I can distinguish the difference between hearing and listening
I can utilize the steps of the listening process to appropriately respond to a communication

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

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

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

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

6. 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

7. 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

8. The 3 Characteristics of Listening:
Active:
You participate, listen attentively, and provide feedback
Strive to understand & remember messages

9. Passive:
Listener doesn’t actively participate and think they can absorb information but not contribute
They place responsibility of communication on the speaker

10. Impatient:
Short bursts of active listening is interrupted by noise/distractions
They intend (usually) to pay attention, but allow their minds to wander

11. 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.

12. 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.

13. Steps in the listening process:
Acquiring/Hearing
Step 1
The reception of sound

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

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

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

17. 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

18. 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

19. 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.