Guidelines and Principles for Teaching Mindful Listening

Abstract

This chapter includes principles developed to help provide teachers with a structure for providing listening opportunities for students. The teaching and learning principles include modeling, motivation, purpose, active engagement, learner distinctions, social and emotional development, cognitive and metacognitive processes. One of the first aspects required for teachers to begin teaching mindful listening habits is to understand their own expectations for how they listen and how they expect students to listen. This chapter provides an overview for teachers to become more aware of their own listening and how to use read alouds as mentor texts to help provide learning experiences for students to practice learning and using mindful listening habits in authentic ways.