During my scroll through the web, I find an article by Julian Treasure. This article talks about how people can speak and make people carefully listen to the. This directly applies for teachers in classrooms because everyone of them needs students listening to them and not only hearing them. Julian stated the seven deadly sins of speaking:
1) Gossip, one of the worst habits people can have. It's important to know that teacher gossiping about another teacher will be perfectly gossiping on you five minutes late.
2) Judging,students who see their teacher judging, they find it hard to listen because they know that someday they are being judged inappropriately.
3) Negativity, negative teachers can greatly affect students who eventually find it hard to listen when somebody's that negative.
4) Complaining, most of teachers complain about schooling on its different sides and students usually never listen for people who's not spreading sunshine in the world.
5) Excuses, its very hard to listen for those who don't take responsibilities on their actions and all they do is trying to pass it on to everybody else.
6) Penultimate or exaggeration, teachers must be careful how to call things when they are really awesome because over expressing can make listeners lose their trust which turns out to be lying.
7) Dogmatism, when somebody such as a teacher is bombarding students with his/her opinions as if they are always true, students see it difficult to listen.
In addition to that, Julian suggested that professional speakers take into consideration the importance of human voice when they carefully pay attention to their voice's pace, prosody, timbre, pitch and volume. She finally ends saying " We speak not very well into people who simply aren't listening in an environment that's all about noise and acoustics".
Students tend to imitate their teachers, so we should be aware to our language, and how we express our beliefs and thoughts. We should also be careful to our appearance and how we look in front of them.
ReplyDeleteIt is a really beneficial article that all teachers must read and follow in their teaching career. Thank you for sharing it!
ReplyDeleteIt is an interesting topic that every teacher should take into consideration.
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ReplyDeleteIf we have a powerful speaking then the audience will be conscious. So we should be honest in what we said. And we should teach our students to be a good listener to be an effective people at work.
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