The Circle of Learning

LISTENING Level 1	LISTENING Level 2	LISTENING Level 3
Benchmark Listen to short messages actively and respectfully. Learning Outcomes Learners will listen with understanding to short messages for enjoyment and practical purposes. Learners will demonstrate active listening behaviours. Learners will minimize barriers to listening in order to improve daily interactions. Tasks you can perform to show listening skills at level 1 Listen to the radio for fun. Nod your head to show you are listening. Draw a picture of what you see as someone uses descriptive words to describe a sacred object (e.g., rock, pipe, bundle, family album, sash). Turn off the television when you are talking to your children. Take turns in class sharing your cultural beverage (e.g., tea) while listening to classmates discuss current events in their lives.	Benchmark Listen to long messages actively and respectfully. Learning Outcomes Learners will listen with understanding to long messages for personal enrichment and practical purposes. Learners will listen with understanding to long messages for social skills development. Learners will demonstrate that listening is an active process of constructing meaning. Learners will listen with empathy in order to improve daily interactions. Tasks you can perform to show listening skills at level 2 Listen to a friend tell you how he is feeling. Listen to a storyteller at your child's school. Listen to an Elder share a cultural teaching. Then describe this teaching to a classmate, friend, or family member. Ask questions during a town meeting. Listen quietly as your spouse tells you about problems she is having at work. Attend a cultural ceremony and carefully listen to one song. Learn the meaning conveyed in the singer's voice.	Learning Outcomes Learners will identify a variety of purposes for listening. Learners will recognize that listening is an active process of constructing meaning. Learners will practise appropriate behaviours of effective listeners while completing a variety of listening activities. Tasks you can perform to show listening skills at level 3 Paraphrase key messages and key details from formal presentations. Listen to learn proper telephone etiquette. Tell your instructor how the last speaker in class was effective. Identify the sequence or steps in a speech or brief lecture.

LISTENING Level 1

LISTENING Level 2

LISTENING Level 3

Benchmark

Listen to short messages actively and respectfully.

Learning Outcomes

Learners will listen with understanding to short messages for enjoyment and practical purposes.

Learners will demonstrate active listening behaviours.

Learners will minimize barriers to listening in order to improve daily interactions.

Tasks you can perform to show listening skills at level 1

Listen to the radio for fun.
Nod your head to show you are listening.
Draw a picture of what you see as someone uses descriptive words to describe a sacred object (e.g., rock, pipe, bundle, family album, sash).
Turn off the television when you are talking to your children.
Take turns in class sharing your cultural beverage (e.g., tea) while listening to classmates discuss current events in their lives.

Benchmark

Listen to long messages actively and respectfully.

Learning Outcomes

Learners will listen with understanding to long messages for personal enrichment and practical purposes.

Learners will listen with understanding to long messages for social skills development.

Learners will demonstrate that listening is an active process of constructing meaning.

Learners will listen with empathy in order to improve daily interactions.

Tasks you can perform to show listening skills at level 2

Listen to a friend tell you how he is feeling.
Listen to a storyteller at your child's school.
Listen to an Elder share a cultural teaching. Then describe this teaching to a classmate, friend, or family member.
Ask questions during a town meeting.
Listen quietly as your spouse tells you about problems she is having at work.
Attend a cultural ceremony and carefully listen to one song. Learn the meaning conveyed in the singer's voice.

Learning Outcomes

Learners will identify a variety of purposes for listening.

Learners will recognize that listening is an active process of constructing meaning.

Learners will practise appropriate behaviours of effective listeners while completing a variety of listening activities.

Tasks you can perform to show listening skills at level 3

Paraphrase key messages and key details from formal presentations.
Listen to learn proper telephone etiquette.
Tell your instructor how the last speaker in class was effective.
Identify the sequence or steps in a speech or brief lecture.