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  • Essay / Importance of Active Listening - 2466

    Qn 1) If you have a student who is inattentive in class and does not participate in group work, and yet is able to pass their class tests, how can you help him in his learning problems and make him an active learner in class. With reference to relevant educational/psychological theories/principles, explain the strategies used to help the student. A student may be inattentive or not participate in the group, for reasons such as passive listening, the way the subject is taught, inability to understand or they have already pre-learned this content in advance and are spacing out instead. The best way for a student to model good or active listening is to be a good listener ourselves. So, firstly, one way to identify the underlying problem will be to talk to the child about it rather than forcing it on them. This way the issue can be identified and made easier to work on. Active listening is not just defined as looking at the teacher with all eyes and ears, with your mouth closed. Active listening includes sending, encoding, decoding, receiving, and providing feedback. Dispatch is the instruction given clearly and precisely with content and reason in simple terms for a useful purpose to be easily understood by all students. Encoding is the transfer of information eliminating sources of conflict and sent in a form where it can be decoded by the recipient. Decoding is a skill that the receiver must acquire in order to listen or read carefully. However, if the decoder lacks the knowledge to understand the message, it creates confusion. Reception is when the recipient receives the message and processes it with ideas and feelings that affect the understanding and response to the message. Feedback occurs when the recipient displays a nonverbal and verbal response to the message. Therefore, enable...... middle of paper ......number of friends. They should also use “parental control” options available on computers to prevent the child from accessing online games or gaming sites and always check “history”. At school, students can be encouraged to make friends with their classmates. first, then slowly with other students from other classes. Then the process can be made easier by doing small ice-breaking activities. Children and parents need to understand the difference between gaming as entertainment and gaming as an impulse control disorder (ICD). It is essential that the concept of “responsible gambling” is clearly explained to students, as gambling is not bad but excessive and being addicted to gambling is harmful. Other means are anonymous help and advice made available over the telephone and the information is guaranteed to be retained. confidential to help gamers and addicted gamers.