Active Listening

In the discipline of secondary education, interpersonal communication skills are vital for teachers to succeed. Secondary teachers are required to successfully communicate with their student and their parents. Developing the effective use of the interpersonal communication skills of listening, questioning and feedback is beneficial to secondary teachers because they create collaboration, promote higher levels of thinking and encourage self-improvement. Listening, more specifically active listening, creates collaboration by constructing successful parent-teacher teamwork and establishing a respectful environment. Effective questioning is beneficial because educators can utilise this skill to promote higher order thinking, which reduces passive learning and uses strategies to improve student’s …show more content…
The interpersonal skill of active listening, is beneficial to the discipline of secondary teaching because it requires the ability to work collaboratively, which creates effective parent-teacher relationships and establishes a respectful environment. Active listening uses rephrased responses and attentiveness to respectfully prompt a speaker to further clarify and elaborate their message (Eunson 2013). This allows individuals to develop strong relationships by having awareness of each other’s viewpoints and perspectives (DeVito 2007). Furthermore, active listening allows individuals to express support and concern for each other (DeVito Joseph 2007). Active listening is beneficial to the field of secondary education because it constructs parent-teacher relationships and establishes an environment marked by respect. Teachers are required to construct successful parent-teacher relationships to ensure (assure) their student’s wellbeing and growth within a learning environment is given the highest priority (Sheridan et al. 2006). However, teachers may have