BLOG 5 EDRG 3344

The definition of listening to me is taking what someone has said either through verbal language or body language and processing it in a way that you understand and take meaning away from it. We all do some sort of listening everyday of our lives. Whether it be at work , school, or at home listening is part of our lives. There is four types of listening that we do. One of which is discriminative listening. This type of listening involves picking and choosing what we feel is important information. For example when I talk to my husband he sometimes gets angry with me because he says I hear what I want to hear. We can I have a entire conversation where I am pretty much just hearing what he is saying until he comes up to a part that I get upset about. The whole time I was hearing him but not listening until he says something that might make me angry just to get my attention. Another type of listening is aesthetic. This type of listening is where you listen for pleasure. I do this daily when I listen to the radio. I love listening to music everyday. I believe that music has the power to move people. There is also efferent listening. This is where you listen for information. I do this type of listening daily at work. I am constantly getting information from co-workers. I also do it when I watch tv shows on the discovery channel and history channel. The last type of listening is critical listening. This type of listening involves listening carefully for instructions or in order to debate. I do this everyday at my job. I am constantly arguing with customers. In a since we are debating because we both argue our sides. We used critical listening in class the other day as well. We had our own in class debate. It was fun and challenging at the same time. The most challenging part was listening to the other team. Every time they made their statement we immediately wanted to respond and weren't fully listening to what they had to say. We weren't fully listening critically. We used all four types of listening for the debate. Discriminative because we choose what we felt was important for us to rebut from what they said, aesthetic because it was fun and exciting being able to listen and argue, efferent because we were listening for information, and critical because we were listening carefully and debating.



Choice Words

The choice words "Teacher Talk" that I found to be most important was the "Did anyone notice...". I feel that this one was most important because it helps open up a whole new world to children that they may never have noticed before. Its helps they children to try new things and stretch beyond what they already control. It helps the student to notice the possible things they can observe about the literate word, themselves, and about others.