![]() ![]() Feet are quiet and not distracting self or others.Hands are quiet and not distracting self or others. ![]() ![]() Body (upper body) is facing the speaker.Heart is caring about how the speaker is feeling.Brain is thinking about what is being said.Rather than require children to determine what is meant by “Listen to me,” each part of the body is described as either active/on or quiet/off: The goal of WBL is to transform an abstract concept (listening) into a concrete, highly comprehendible one. WHOLE BODY LISTENING to the rescue! Whole Body Listening (WBL) is a term coined by Susanne Poulette Truesdale in 1990, and later adopted into the Social Thinking Curriculum (Michelle Garcia Winner). Neurotypical students struggle to form consistent rules for listening, so imagine how challenging this is for children with language processing challenges, lack contextual awareness, challenges recognizing social cues, and overly rigid interpretations of social situations. Some teachers want students to listen with their ears alone, while others expect students to freeze whatever they might be doing in order to listen. Listening on the playground may look different than listening during a math lesson. My image of listening may be very different than your image of listening. Despite being one of the most common words I hear in K-8 classrooms (and I have no doubt it’s a high frequency word in high school as well), LISTENING is an abstract concept. Today’s post is all about number four: Listening. I’ll say a word and you decide if it’s concrete (simple to picture, describe and define) or abstract (context-based, dynamic, challenging to consistently define). Let’s play a game called concrete or abstract. ![]()
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