Two key strategies\u00a0 (active listening and wait time) used in classrooms\u00a0also work in small groups. They assist group leaders as well as the groups they lead. Both show respect for the learning in progress.<\/p>\n
Active listening <\/em>demonstrates taking turns as well as respect for the speaker.When a person is speaking, all attention needs to be placed on the speaker.\u00a0 Listeners are:<\/p>\n looking at the speaker<\/p>\n keeping their bodies quiet<\/p>\n not speaking while the speaker in talking.<\/p>\n Wait time <\/em>is an extension of active listening and demonstrates respect of each individual’s thinking. Wait time means that after a question is asked, respondents have 5-10 seconds of quiet while they think. This short break gives methodical thinkers a chance to formulate their answers. It gives speedy thinkers time to reach beyond their first answer , replacing it with their better or best answer, rather like brainstorming.<\/p>\n Both practices can be used in and out of classrooms. Respect for learners has no walls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Two key strategies\u00a0 (active listening and wait time) used in classrooms\u00a0also work in small groups. They assist group leaders as well as the groups they lead. Both show respect for the learning in progress. Active listening demonstrates taking turns as well as respect for the speaker.When a person is speaking, all attention needs to be\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-expectations-misbehavior-communication-clarifying-monitoring","tag-respect"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}