Active Listening Skills

Subject :

COMMUNICATION, LANGUAGE AND LITERACY

Topic :

Active Listening Skills

Class :

Kindergarten 1 / KG 1

 

Term :

First Term

 

Week :

Week 6

 

Instructional Materials :

  • Wall charts
  • Pictures
  • Related Online Video
  • Flash Cards
  • Cut out of letters of the alphabet like A , B , C , D

 

Methods of Teaching :

  • Class Discussion
  • Group Discussion
  • Asking Questions
  • Explanation
  • Role Modelling
  • Role Delegation

 

 

Reference Materials :

  • Scheme of Work
  • Online Information
  • Textbooks
  • Workbooks
  • 9 Year Basic Education Curriculum
  • Workbooks

Previous Knowledge :

The pupils have been taught

Vowels and Consonants

in their previous lesson

Behavioural Objectives :  At the end of the lesson, the pupils should be able to

  • Be rapt listener
  • Be Attentive listener
  • Be focused listener
  • Be interactive listener

 

 

Content :

 

ACTIVE LISTENING SKILLS

 

Listening is the process of receiving and assimilating ideas and information from spoken messages.

It is the process of sending ideas, information, concepts, thoughts or principles either in written or spoken form in such manner that the students or learners will decode and understand.

Active listening mean getting the kids to pay full attention to the speaker and understand the complete message being passed.

 

The kids ability to remember and ask questions are ways to know if the child listened well or not. That a child is looking at you while talking is not a confirmation that he/ she listened.

 

This topic is very important because getting the kids to be active listeners will help them to understand every other thing being taught in the class, it will help to become better communicators and excellent problem solvers.

 

Being an active listener also shows good character, commitment and an essential component of being a leader.

 

You can help the kids to become active listeners by encouraging them to

1. maintain eye contact with people

2. ask questions

3. Read lips of the speakers

4. Repeat what the speaker says

 

Other Methods of Teaching are :

Class Discussion

Group Discussion

Asking Questions

Explanation

Role Modelling

Role Delegation

 

Presentation

The topic is presented step by step

 

Step 1:

The class teacher revises the previous topics

 

Step 2.

He introduces the new topic

 

Step 3:

The class teacher allows the pupils to give their own examples and he corrects them when the needs arise

 

 

Class Activities 

Teacher : Do as I do

Pupils : I do

Teacher  What am I doing

Pupils : I am jumping

Teacher   what am I doing

Pupils : I am dancing

Evaluation :l

Read a short  interesting story to the pupils and ask question at the end of the reading

Elephant, Elephant, As I was going to the market

 

Conclusion

The class teacher wraps up or conclude the lesson by giving out short note to summarize the topic that he or she has just taught.

The class teacher also goes round to make sure that the notes are well copied or well written by the pupils.

He or she does the necessary corrections when and where  the needs arise.

 

Assignment :

 

Story reading skills