"Listening in Classrooms"

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This paper is a discussion of the importance of listening and using conversations as part of the learning experience. It uses Mary McCaslin and Thomas L. Good's text, "Listening in Classrooms", as the primary reference and considers their principal thesis--that listening helps facilitate both the formal and the informal learning process and that the student-teacher relationship, built and enhanced through conversation and interchange, is the key to an effective classroom experience.

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"Teachers are trained professionals - who also happen to be human beings, with individual ranges of experience, backgrounds, and personalities. Trying to ignore this humanity, rather than embracing it, can result in disaster. Instead, just as each student should be treated as an individual, at a particular stage of development and with particular needs and abilities, so too should teachers look at their individual strengths and humanity as assets in the educational process, rather than obstacles to be overcome. This is not to say that teachers should revel in their idiosyncrasies but instead that they should begin by acknowledging their individuality and then seeking ways to capitalize on these personal strengths."

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