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Listening is to hear what someone says in order to respond after processing the meaning of the words spoken. To really listen, a person hears whjat is said, not filtering out what's not important to you but it is important to the person speaking. I admire people who take their time responding to someone because I feel the person is listening and are processing what has been said before speaking back. To me, this shows that a person has taken the time to convert what has been said into meaning.
There are four ways to listen that each serve a different purpose. To use discriminative listening, a person would tune out unimportant information, like when listening to a lecture. Aesthetic listening is usually ofr pleasure, like when a person listens to music. Efferent listening would be used when taking notes to have information on a chapter read in a textbook. Critical listening involves listening carefully as you might do when asking for someone's opinion on a subject.
The most challenging part of the debate about choclate was for the group to come to a mutual decision about the key points to sell our chocolate. During this exercise, I wanted to listen to everyone thoughts and wanted everyone to have a voice, including the more quiet people.
The teacher talk that is most important to me is the "I see you know how to spell the beginning of that word". If a teacher can encourage what a student is doing right, whether it be in spelling, reading, or doing math, then the student has some confidence to go further and not gi ve up. If a teacher can give that to a student, the student will try that much harder.