Listening to Understand

Listening to Understand:
How often are we really listening?

LU.1 Active Listening:

Students are able to demonstrate various habits (tracking, nodding, questioning, etc.) to show others that they are listening.

Active Listening

Since we cannot always know whether people are truly listening or taking us seriously, Active Listening is a technique we could use to show others that we are paying attention to them without them having to ask or wonder.

LU.2 Creating a Safe Space for Sharing:

Students are able to demonstrate the use of various tools to create a non-judgmental and supportive space for others to share what they want to share.

Culture-Building Circles Guidelines

Culture-building Circles are a simple, but powerful, way to build positive culture by creating opportunities for students to learn more about each other and make new connections.

Family Group Agreement Setting

Students are placed in Family Groups that will collaborate the whole year. They will use this lesson to set communication expectations and working norms.

Family Group Agreements worksheet

Setting Class Agreements

Before we can get started with our classrooms to dive into meaningful topics and conversation, we need to make sure that we have a set of classroom agreements that everybody is willing to uphold. This presentation will help you get those set up.

Setting Class Agreements presentation

Intro to Community Circles

This series of sessions teaches students the expectations for a class Community Circle for community-building.

Intro to Community Circles presentation

Community Circles - Connecting

Building off the foundational Community Circle rules, this lesson adds ways for students to appropriate connect with each other during Circles.

Community Circles - Connecting presentation

LU.3 Deep Listening:

Students are able to demonstrate the use of empathy interviewing tools to help others share what they need to share in order to to find root causes of personal problems.

Intro to Deep Listening

"Deep Listening," is a useful way to really hear and understand a situation to help come up with a solution.

Deep Listening: Dilemma Consultancy

A "Dilemma Consultancy" is a way to help you practice Deep Listening while within a group - making the whole group better able to listen, understand a situation, and come up with meaningful solutions.

Determining Needs

For students to learn how to use their Deep Listening skills to help resolve conflicts, they need to practice determining the needs of the people involved in the conflict to later help them communicate effectively with each other.

Conflict Mediation

Students practice conflict mediation through role plays focusing on their Deep Listening strategies.

Assessments

Some examples of assessments for Speak to be Heard.

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