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Active Listening Video
Script for ACTIVE LISTENING video from the RFB&D Learning through Listening PD Module
Screen 1. Shows the following text:
After reading the Benefits of Listening, a middle school English teacher shared how she integrated ideas from the article into her curriculum. The purposeful addition of active listening skills enhanced her curriculum unit and greatly benefited her students.
Screens 2 & 3. Shows “Writer’s Workshop” diagram with process steps shown in a circle diagram with of Pre-Compose, Compose, Publish, Clarify
[Narrator] In our classrooms, we use the writer’s workshop approach to teach writing. A very important part of the workshop process is that after each draft is written …
Screens 4 & 5: Students in a writing workshop
[Narrator] … every student has to provide good feedback to their peers. The workshop process is a challenge for many of our students …
Screen 6: RFB&D’s Learning Through Listening website, beginning with homepage and then clicking through to the “Benefits of Teaching Listening” and highlighting relevant points.
[Narrator] … so when I read about teaching active listening, I thought, Well, some of these skills might be useful during our workshop sessions. The article talked about skills such as making eye contact, summarizing what the speaker said, making connections, and then asking probing questions.
Screens 7 - 12: Students working collaboratively and alone
[Narrator] I think the students do find that active listening improves the quality of their feedback. They routinely ask themselves now before providing feedback, Am I making eye contact with the writer? Am I actively restating the main ideas in the draft? Did I ask probing questions such as, What evidence was provided to support the main ideas? How strong was the evidence? Was there anything confusing? And we’ve now encouraged the writers themselves to listen to their peers using the active listening skills.
Screen 13-16: LTL website is displayed. Teacher clicks on Lesson Plans and searches for lessons, selects “The Severus Snape Debate.”
[Narrator] So here’s a lesson plan that I found I really like. It’s called “The Severus Snape Debate.” In persuasive writing, I have many students who have a hard time formulating strong arguments. They basically just write a series of statements with very little evidence. So I thought this lesson would definitely help me teach them this challenging concept of making strong arguments. And it’s got these really engaging materials that I just know my students would look forward to reading.
Screens 17-18: Illustrations of the Severus story
[Narrator] It’s part of our curriculum to teach persuasive writing, and I really like the scenario of a murder trial. I can just see my students getting totally into role-playing.
Screens 19-20: Writers Workshop diagram and online forum screens
[Narrator] Currently we are modifying the lesson plan because we don’t want to lose the workshop piece. We are experimenting with a new dimension to our writer’s workshop. We are setting up an online forum for each group. That way the writers can post multiple drafts of their arguments and their supporting evidence from their research. And we’re asking that their classmates post comments and ask probing questions online to them.
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