Opportunities for student-led discussions help students hone their listening, speaking, and critical thinking skills.

A simple shift in business education, training MBA students to listen effectively, can significantly boost their humility and ...

A lot of teachers give students participation points for speaking up during class discussions. The more students contribute, the more points they get. I’ve heard teachers say this motivates students, ...

A few years ago, as a teacher at a New York City middle school, in Brooklyn, I was administering the listening portion of a standardized test. “Listen,” I read aloud from the teacher’s manual. I ...

Listen and learn, the saying goes. But are students and teachers these days fully listening to each other? What, exactly, is good listening, and why does it matter when it comes to learning? Is "close ...

Speaking and listening account for the overwhelming majority of how we receive information in our daily communications. Yet, average listeners may understand and recall as little as 10 percent of what ...

In recent years, teachers have been pummeled, shamed, cajoled, enticed, even humiliated, under the relentless pressures to conform to the profusion of dictates emerging from Sacramento and Washington.