Core Practice: Listening to Students and Community Members

Ability to actively listen to students and to learn from them and other non-conventional sources of knowledge

• I can facilitate a comfortable rapport with my students through facilitating informal and formal opportunities for students to share non-academic information and experiences with me. Trusting relationships can also be cultivated when I share age-appropriate non-academic information about myself with my students.

• I can learn something useful and interesting that can complement and support my teaching from any member of the local community.

I will practices the targeted skills in this module by . . . 

• Facilitating a class meeting or non-academic discussion with my students, including compliments and appreciations

• Learning something new from a non-certificated person in my school or community, and thinking about how the knowledge gained could connect with academic content in my classroom