Success Criteria:

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 Chapter 6: The Listening Process:

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 • Empathic: listening to understand, participate in, and enhance a relationship • Critical: listening to comprehend ideas and information in order to achieve a specific purpose or goal • Appreciative: listening to enjoy a speaker’s message or a performance on an artistic level

7. 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

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. Steps in the listening process: * Not everyone hears the same way (frequencies/hard of hearing) Acquiring/Hearing Step 1 The reception of sound

11. Steps in the listening process: * Your own needs, interests, attitudes, and knowledge affects your choice to pay attention Attending/Choosing The act of choosing to focus attention on the message Step 2

12. Steps in the listening process: * Your knowledge, attitudes, values, beliefs, and self-concept influence your perception Understanding Step 3 Deciding what the message means to you

13. Steps in the listening process: * You first respond emotionally, then intellectually Responding Your reaction to the message. It can be emotional and intellectual Step 4

15. 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

16. 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

17. Activity: Get in groups of 6 • Make A StoryObjectivesTo increase listening skills within the group.MethodThis game is similar to the telephone game.While sitting in a small circle, participants are asked to construct a story by each participant adding one line at a time (e.g., As he got off his horse, he saw a big rabbit). This continues with each additional participant adding another line.

18. GRADE CHECK