How to teach hearing in classrom

[robinso...@gmail.com]

Dear Julian:
I'm secondary math teacher, since a few years ago I have been working
in some activities in order to improve my students learning through
their senses. In this working I have noted that from all the senses
the more damaged one (or less improved) in maths is the ear, which is,
in my opinion, the most important.
My intention at creating this topic is that everybody can share ideas
and activities about how to teach students to improve their hearing in
classrom.
For example. What do you think is the better way to teach RASA to
students?

[Julian Treasure]

This is a recent entry from my blog... I hope it will find fertile
ground here among all of you who are actually in the field. Text in
[brackets] is commentary from me now.

Teaching listening in schools
Following my TED talk on conscious listening and why it should be
taught in schools, I've had enquiries from educators about how this
can be done. Here are some practical suggestions. There are many more
ideas and I would love to hear what people all over the world come up
with. I plan to start a new web resource for listing in schools,
probably a blog where people can post their experiences and ideas.
[that last of course is this forum!]

Silence
Help them to experience this possibly for the first time in their
lives. Teach about it (take a look at my blog on silence for some
ideas) and then work up from short shared silences - maybe one minute
to start with - to longer ones. This will be very precious for them,
but also very challenging. Ask them to write or share their experience
of these silences, and what silence means in their lives.

Mixer
Take them to rich aural environments (start inside the school) and
have them pair and log all the sound sources they hear. If you have
the resources, let them experiment with multichannel sound.

Savouring
Give them a multi-day project to notice sounds and bring their three
favourites in to class to share. If you have the resources (eg own a
Zoom H2 digital recorder or similar) do this one small group at a time
and have them record the sounds to play to all. You could do the same
with sounds they dislike.

Listening positions
The most powerful of all. Pair them up and have A say what they had
for breakfast while B listens from different positions (for example 1
I'm bored; 2 I want to be friends with this person; 3 I'm in a hurry;
4 what can I learn from this - please make up your own also). Have the
As share their experiences at the end, then the Bs. Swap and repeat.
If they get the principle that you can change reality by listening
from a different place, that will be a great gift.

RASA (receive, appreciate, summarise, ask)
Practice each element by pairing up again and have listeners turn each
element off and on while listening and then both people share their
experience. Have them share about their general experience of being
listened to at home, in school and elsewhere (especially by adults),
and how it affects their own listening to others.

On Oct 11, 1:28 am, "robinson.ta...@gmail.com"

[Rodger Caseby]

Hi Julian and thanks for the invite to join. I teach in a UK secondary
school. I was interested in your TED talk on listening and especially
the way in which technology that should facilitate communication
actually often serves to cut us off from one another. It often seems
that there is a lot of broadcasting going on but the amount of
listening is questionable! Speaking and Listening is a key part of the
English curriculum, but also essential across the whole range of
subjects to achieve social learning through group work.
We have a music specialism, so we have explored the use of music in
learning. I am now interested in picking up on the ideas about sounds
from the natural environment.
We have also been exploring ways of teaching listening through tutor
time. We have Vertical (meaning students in all year groups) tutor
groups of around 20 which offers opportunities over the normal class
size of 30 or so. Coincidentally, we have agreed to pilot a resource
called 'a minute of listening' which provides audio clips for use in
schools. We think this could be a good introduction to some of the
activities Julian suggests. We will let you know how we get on.

On Oct 12, 11:21 am, Julian Treasure <julian.treas...@gmail.com>
wrote: