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This Week's Topic

Improving Your Listening Skills
Listening to your students is as important as speaking to them. Students need to feel you hear their concerns and questions. This week’s tips focus on how to improve your listening skills.

This Week's Tips

Improve Your Listening Skills (Monday)
To listen well, you need to pay attention to what is being said. This goes without saying, yet it is harder than it sounds. Drifting off while someone is speaking happens to all of us. Try these tips to help you listen better: Resist assuming you know what students are going to say. Let students completely finish speaking before you answer.

More Ways to Improve Your Listening Skills (Tuesday)
Here are more tips on listening skills: Keep good eye contact with the student who is speaking and with the rest of the students to see their reactions. Be aware that you are hearing from your point of view. What the student is saying may not be what you are hearing. Listen carefully through distractions, such as other students in the hallway.

Additional Ways to Improve Your Listening Skills (Wednesday)
Here are more tips on listening skills: While a student is speaking, use your body language to show you are listening. Restate what the student said. Pause before responding to give yourself time to think about what the student said. If necessary, ask the student to come to a conclusion, and then paraphrase what was said.

Additional Listening Skills Tips (Thursday)
Here are a few more ways you can better listen to your students: Focus on the content of what the student is saying, not the delivery. Avoid emotional involvement. Listen as objectively as possible. If you are distracted, bring yourself back to the student who is speaking. Ask yourself mental questions while listening. What key point is the student making? How does this relate to the material?

More Listening Skills Tips (Friday)
When you are in front of a class, you are “on stage.” Students tend to judge the course by how well you present the material, and by how you react to students. At all times, you’ll want to give your best performance. To do so, follow these tips: Always be attentive and courteous. When students speak, listen, nod, and respond appropriately. Avoid upstaging students or answering before a student has finished speaking.

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