Topic

Listening

Goals and Objectives

To help student become aware of what it involves to be an active listener

To help students evaluate their listening skills

To help student to determine what to listen for when taking notes

Resources

Textbook The Confident Student pages 45-51

Exercises to Evaluate Your Listening Skills ( Hopper)

Possible Answers to Exercises

Ideas and Activities

Have students read and work pages 45-51 and the exercises evaluating their listening skills.

Possible Journal Entries
Relate what you know about memory principles to your listening skills.

Relate a time that you not using good listening skills caused you embarrassment.

Follow Up-Assignments

There is a logical progression from memory principles--that is interest, intent to remember, basic background, etc. and listening. Students might experiment what other memory principles improve their listening -- Visualization? Association?