Active Listening - Helping Students Become Better Listeners

In this tutorial, we explore practical strategies to help students improve their communication skills through active listening.

The purpose of this tutorial is to help students become better listeners. You will learn:

•       how to use verbal and non-verbal cues to listen actively

•       to reflect on your own active listening skills, and identify how to improve them

•       strategies to overcome roadblocks to active listening

•       to model active listening in your interactions with students

What members learned from this tutorial

To show the student I'm listening and I care about what they have to say, I need to use positive paralanguage (body language), paraphrase (restate their words) and change my attitude to what they're saying by not giving advice, judging, finishing their sentences or interrupting. - Ella

How important non-verbal indicators are to listening and therefore I need to be more aware of these when interacting with students. - Joanne

That I need to ask more questions to clarify what the speaker is saying. - Kylie