2. Safe Hands How to improve understanding ? By : Dr. Nitin Oke

3. Safe Hands Understanding needs Classroom Listening Skills - –B–Be Informative: search for information and note it down –B–Be Critical: Don’t be listener only you have to be critical whenever needed. –B–Be Appreciative: you must respond to the things which you feel useful and make the class lively

4. Safe Hands Understanding needs Classroom Listening Skills - –Have Open mind: you must not be prejudiced about a topic or subject. Need to keep your mind open. –Develop Concentration: without this you can not do anything, by doing so you will get exhausted hence you must relax in between, for this you need to have-- –be Discriminatory: ability to know importance.

5. Safe Hands Problems in Understanding Barriers in Understanding Fatigue: Physical fitness, eating habits, mismanagement of resources Distractions: B oard writings, language, companion Impatience: Personal problem Interruptions: teacher’s problem, Attitude: towards subject, teacher, time

6. Safe Hands Barriers in Listening skill Prejudices: ourselves, subject Day-dreaming: teenage problem Semantic: meaning of word or sentence lecture style: difference, contradictions No outlining: of future problems and plans Problems in Understanding

7. Safe Hands Barriers in Understanding Listening (is of yours) and Speaking ( is of teacher) results into Change of meanings The reasons are Speed Gap Simultaneous Processing of Sorting & Arranging Problems in Understanding

8. Safe Hands Barriers in Listening skill If we are not successful, we follow blindly Blackboard pattern, or copy the matter from student seating beside. Problems in Understanding

9. Safe Hands Solutions to UNDERSTAND Pre reading & Questioning Have Self linkages, Catching Clues*, !, ? (Indicating Questions / doubts) Rewriting Provides a Purpose Listening, Thinking, Writing Remembering, Reviewing, Revising, Reorganizing,