The Art Of Listening In Teaching

Teaching is a process in which the teacher and students can interact, exchange and communicate, promote mutual understanding and support, and get the meaning of life together. In order to realize this process, the art of listening in teaching shows the endless charm. It is a bridge that links the teacher and students. It's not only a condition that arouse students to learn in an autonomy and active way ,but also the driving force that pushes the classroom forward healthily and that the teacher's and students' lives can mingle and their souls can echo. The art of listening in teaching is the art that the teacher and students can get the best effect of teaching by improving effectiveness and level of listening. Listening in teaching refers to the teacher's listening to students and students' listening to the teacher and their classmates. Listening is a teacher's comprehensive ability and a challenge of teaching ability. It's a teaching philosophy, embodying a teaching democracy and the student-centered thinking. Only by listening to students, can the teacher really respect the students, concern about students, enable them to express the true voice of their own, and have their emotional resonance and thinking collision, which go into the inner world of students and present a wonderful life. Each student has their own brilliant and unique understanding on the problem. Listening to the teacher and classmates is the most important step in learning. Listening can cause the student's recognitive conflict and self-reflection, deepen their understanding, stimulate inspiration, so that they can get mutual promotion, appreciation, sharing and mutual aid in the cooperative learning. By listening, students become good at listening and thinking, constantly revise self-improvement and self-perfection, and develop well in the future.The characteristics of the art of listening in teaching are creative, emotional, complementarity, aesthetic, generative and ethical. According to the practice, listening in teaching is classified in multi-dimension. The function of the art of listening in teaching is explored from the teacher's and students' view. The teacher's listening can highlight the students, manage the class, benefit the teacher and students, make the decision of the class. Students' listening can improve their intelligence, mould their temperament, communicate with each other. The reasons that the teacher and students can not listen are explored and some advice is given on how to improve the teacher's and students' art of listening in teaching according to the reasons.