A top student or a bad student? The difference lies in your listening efficiency

There is a joke circulating on the Internet: During class, the teacher lectures at the speed of 4G, the top students listen at the speed of WIFI, the god of learning thinks at the speed of 3G, and the ordinary students teach at the speed of 2G Followed by, the scumbags were disconnected on the spot, and some even shut down automatically! Although it is a joke, teachers will be a little touched when they see this joke.

Indeed, teachers may all have this question. With the same teacher and the same class, why do some students master it well and some students poorly after a class? Isn’t it because of the teacher’s level? If this is the case, then why do some children learn very well? It seems that all the reasons cannot be attributed to the teacher. So, is it the students? Are some students particularly stupid? It doesn't seem to be the case. If you go to the class and take a look, you will see that some students with poor academic performance are quite smart and can even be described as smart. So what is the reason for this difference? Here, I just want to ask the children, do you really know how to listen to the class?

Some people may think that this question is superfluous. Who doesn’t know how to listen to a class? Just sit in the classroom and listen carefully to the teacher. Is this really the case? Listening to classes is never that simple.

We know that listening requires skills. British writer Nicky Stanton shared ten ways to improve listening skills in his book "Communication Bible--All-round Communication in Listening, Listening, Reading and Writing".

Look, there are so many listening skills in our daily lives. Can you say that we don’t need skills in listening to my lectures? I think it is definitely not the case. Listening to lectures also requires mastering certain skills.

So what can we do to improve the efficiency of listening to lectures? Based on Nicky Stanton's listening skills, I extracted eight elements to improve the efficiency of listening.

Do a good job of previewing before class

I have a habit of explaining my classroom rules, homework habits, etc. to the students every year when I take the first class. Explain so that students understand how to study this course. An especially important point, I would emphasize the importance of previewing before class. Students will be required to write down the key points of the preview on the first page of the book, so that they can operate according to the key points when previewing the text. Why preview? In fact, it is to improve students' listening efficiency in class. When you mark out your doubts in the preview, and then listen to the class with questions in class, the listening efficiency will be higher than that of students who have not previewed in advance.

Listen with questions and focus

We all know that people’s intentional attention time is not long, especially for children. A class lasts for 40 minutes. It is difficult to concentrate every minute and listen to the class attentively. Even adults will get distracted sometimes after listening to a class. Therefore, why the first point is to emphasize preview before class, because in preview, students can understand what they do not understand. In class, when the teacher talks about this point, you can remind yourself to focus on listening and memorizing. In this way, you can effectively use the 40 minutes of class instead of just listening in general and not listening to anything in the end. .

Look for points of interest and avoid distractions

As teachers, we all know that not all course content is extremely interesting. Therefore, there will always be students who are not focused enough in class due to lack of interest in the course content. In response to this, what teachers can do is to try their best to present the course content in a more interesting way when preparing lessons to improve students' interest in learning. As a student, when you start learning a new content, please try to find some points of interest in the content during preview, and use this point of interest to attract your attention during class and avoid distraction.

Some time ago, in a vocabulary class, we happened to teach the word "younger", and then the students below got a little excited and shouted "Yange". It turned out that they thought of a Yange Cinema here. All the students became more interested and their reading voices became louder and neater.

I found this to be very good. The students themselves discovered the homophonic memory method. Once they became interested, their memory of the word deepened.

Many times, the content of the textbook cannot be changed, but we can constantly explore our own points of interest through thinking and constantly remind ourselves to avoid being distracted in class.

Take class notes

As the saying goes, a good memory is worse than a bad pen! Listening to lectures is really more than just listening. Studies have shown that our human brain can only remember 50% of what we have heard, and if we do not review it in time, we will forget more after two days. Therefore, we emphasize the importance of class notes. However, in class, I found that many students do not have the habit of taking class notes. They either keep their heads up and stare at the blackboard or big screen, or they just lower their heads and look at books. Very few students really consciously take notes. Almost every time I remind them that they start copying notes in a panic. It can be seen from these behaviors that most children lack initiative when listening to classes. Lack of initiative is a terrible thing in learning.

So, if you want to improve your listening efficiency, please listen to the class attentively and take class notes. Class notes are not useless, they help you remember the book content deeply. Especially during the review and consolidation stage, flipping through the notes is equivalent to reviewing the key points in class and deepening understanding.

Independent thinking and critical thinking

Independent thinking is the key to learning. During the lecture, if you don't have your own independent thinking, you will follow others' opinions and follow what others say. Only by learning to think independently can you develop critical thinking and come up with different insights on some issues.

Some time ago, when I was in class, I made a courseware. Due to the adaptation of the old and new textbooks, one of the questions in the article changed, which happened to be the opposite of the question in the new version of the textbook. But I didn't notice that during the answer checking process, only two students discovered the question and raised it. We went to the text to search again and found out the reason. The other students just looked at the answer in confusion. The teacher said to choose A. Without thinking, they changed their correct answer. It can be seen that the importance of independent thinking is that the process of your thinking is the process of internalizing knowledge.

In fact, today’s classrooms are no longer dominated by teachers. Teachers welcome students to think independently and put forward their own opinions. Therefore, if you have any questions about the teacher's explanation in class, feel free to ask them.

Follow the teacher's rhythm and interact

Teachers will have such an experience in class. All students who can keep up with the teacher's rhythm will listen to the class carefully and concentrate on it. Frequent interactions with teachers, otherwise, there will be desertions and even small group chats. Whenever I find that some students are absent in class, I will call them by name to answer some simple questions. Often at this time, he looks confused and at a loss, and he doesn't even know where the teacher is. What is the efficiency of listening to lectures with such performance?

So, in class, we can often see students who follow the teacher's pace closely. They have a deeper understanding of knowledge, and the quality of their homework in the after-class practice consolidation stage is also relatively high. Because they really learn and think during the lecture, they understand and internalize the knowledge taught by the teacher in class.

Listen to the class without prejudice

In school, there are always some students who are willful because they don’t like a certain teacher or a certain class, and then in this class They don't listen carefully, and I always feel sad for them. There are several students like this in my class. Because they don’t like English and their basic knowledge is not good, they simply draw or do homework in other subjects. Although I tried my best to persuade them, they had little effect. For such students, I really feel a deep sense of powerlessness. Learning is really not for the teacher. If you have a prejudice against a certain course and bring this emotion into the classroom, it will ultimately greatly reduce your efficiency in listening to the class, and you will be the one who suffers.

Do a good job in after-class consolidation

It is said that reviewing the past will help you learn something new, and they have emphasized so much. If you do not pay attention to after-class consolidation, the efficiency of listening to the class will be greatly reduced. We all know the Ebbinghaus forgetting curve.

After listening to a class, you may remember most of the content at the time. After 20 minutes, you only remember 58.2. After an hour, you only remember 44.2. After 9 hours, you only remember 35.8. , if you don’t review for a day, you can only remember 33.7. As time goes by, if you don’t review, the content you can remember will only become less and less.

This is why the teacher repeatedly emphasizes review and consolidation after a class and assigns a certain amount of homework to practice. Because you don't consolidate and review, you will forget everything after a while, which is equivalent to wasting this lesson in vain.

Please remember that teachers do not assign homework to students only when they are full and have nothing to do. In fact, homework plays a very important role in improving learning efficiency as a part of after-school consolidation. effect!

To sum up, previewing before class, listening carefully and interacting during class, taking notes, thinking independently, practicing and consolidating after class, etc. are all interrelated and influence each other. Among them, if any link is not implemented properly, it will affect the next learning link.

Many children are always distressed: "I understand all the principles, but I just can't learn them"! In fact, don’t worry. If you want to improve your learning efficiency, start changing your lecture habits from now on. As long as you master the correct listening skills and persevere, your classroom efficiency will become higher and higher. At the same time, do the relevant homework well and don't complete the task just for the sake of submission. I believe your learning efficiency will be greatly improved. .

Are you a top student or a bad student? Please reflect on your own lecture behavior in time. From now on, try to make some changes and let's see. Maybe, you will be the next top student!