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Thursday, April 6, 2017

How to Listen with Compassion in the Classroom (Online Article)

Classrooms need to provide a safe atmosphere for students as they share their personal views, thoughts, and opinions.  A sense of unity and community needs to be found in every classroom.  Listening with compassion allows the teachers to show the students their love for them.  The article titled How to Listen with Compassion in the Classroom provides a list of components that are needed in order to cultivate compassionate listening in the classroom.  
  • Be fully present.
"Compassionate listeners maintain complete silence and pay attention not only to words they hear, but also to facial expressions, body language, and tone of voice, noticing even the silences between words. "
  • Know listening is enough.
"Listening with deep attention involves a calm, relaxed state of mind, free of the desire to “fix” someone or solve their problems for them."
  • Respond with acceptance.
"Deep listeners are motivated by the desire to understand how others feel and how their experiences have affected them."
  • Understand conflict as part of real-life learning.
  • Ask authentic questions to learn more.
Teachers should ask open-ended questions while conversing with students.
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3 comments:

  1. MomApril 8, 2017 at 6:46 PM

    Grreat thoughts about compassion and very necessary for many hurting children.

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  2. Katie VanceApril 8, 2017 at 10:25 PM

    Christ is our best example to show compassion, and children should have our respect and compassionate heart as any other human made in God's image

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  3. Miss JackieApril 9, 2017 at 5:53 PM

    Listening gets overlooked at times while teaching. Sometimes we get busy on what we need to teach and get done that we forget that listening is just as important. How do I really know how my students are learning unless I really listen ?

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