Teaching Students to Listen, Hear and Understand at the Same Time

Top 10 listening strategies to help students build superior academic listening, understanding, and comprehension skills.

Moving students from zombie listening "fake or false listening" to deep introspective academic listening takes direct daily practice and instruction. Most published language arts programs fail our students because they skip daily academic listening and speaking instruction. Oracy: the ability to express oneself fluently, grammatically, and scholastically in speech.

Types of active listening: Listening to understand and comprehend, listening to reflect on feelings of emotional content/context, listening to analyze, listening to critique, evaluate, or judge, listening to sympathize or empathize. 

1. Model academic and reflective listening using daily think alouds and oracy lessons. Direct metacognition instruction builds superior listening comprehension skills
2. Actively teach students the purposes, goals, and the 4 main types of academic listening 
3. Keep lectures short and give students time to reflect, talk, and make connections with new ideas
4. Teach students good listening etiquette, the art of being present and mindful 
5. Use "think pair share," student check-ins, and turn and talk/teach before, during, and after a lecture
6. Students need a clear listening goal and listening  objectives/task to prepare their minds for learning
7. Front-load lectures with a listening stimulant, students listen more closely when the topic is fascinating, odd, silly, outrageous, absurd, and important to them
8. Teach students the Socratic method, teach students the art of a Hegelian dialectic
9. Play listening comprehension games
10. Keep your expectations high and hold students accountable 

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