MUSEUM OF TEACHING AND LEARNING
Donate Membership Volunteer
  • HOME
  • What We Do
    • Artifacts >
      • Artifact of the Month
      • Artifact Group and Index
    • Exhibitions >
      • Your Baby's Amazing Brain
      • A Class Action >
        • Exhibition Layout
        • Manuscript and Photographs
        • Artifacts
        • Recordings and Documentary
        • Docent Support
        • Classroom Materials
        • Suggested Events
        • Marketing Materials
        • Venues
        • What People Are Saying
        • Acknowledgements
      • Memories of Mexican Schools Listening Station
      • Two Roads, One Journey >
        • Objectives
        • Our Audience
        • The Experience
        • Exhibition Floor Plan
        • Venues
        • Creative Team
      • Past Exhibitions
    • Podcasts
    • Programs >
      • Artifact Collection
      • Artifact Group and Index
      • Learn
      • Bookshop
      • Resources
  • About Us
    • About MOTAL
    • Our History
    • Board Members
    • Behind the Scenes
    • Events
  • Contact
  • MOTAL Articles
Picture

Motal Articles

MOTAL ARTICLES

The Museum of Teaching and Learning is pleased to provide you a list with links to the posts we have sent out in the past year. It is our mission to enlighten, educate, inspire, and tell stories for all ages. All you have to do is click on the titles below. Pour yourself a cup of coffee or favorite drink, relax and enjoy.
We will be adding articles weekly so please check back often to read some more.

We need your help to share stories in new places and reach more students, teachers, and community members of all ages in 2023.
You can make a difference today! Take our survey!
CLICK HERE Don't forget to write the Article Name on the survey


RECENT ARTICLES

MORE MOTAL ARTICLES

A Week for ListeningTime to Embrace Listening

11/5/2021

 
Picture
Since 2010, World Listening Day has been observed on July 18. The date was chosen to celebrate the birthday of R. Murray Schafer, a well-known Canadian composer, writer, musician, researcher, and educator.


Schafer was a key figure in the early “acoustic ecology” movement whose purpose was to encourage people of all ages to slow down, quiet down, and focus on the world of sounds that surround them in both town and country atmospheres. He used the term soundscape to indicate the rich world of auditory tones, much as landscape indicates the vistas that comprise the world of visual surroundings.
Picture
During this special week The Museum of Teaching and Learning encourages readers to focus on enhanced listening throughout their lives.


WHO?
The person to start with is YOU, for just as the most effective teachers of reading are readers and of writing are writers, the person who can best help others listen must be an effective listener.


HOW?
Step out. Leave your usual environment and walk out the door, away from your physical or psychic cubicle. You do not have to go far; you just need to change environments (or habits).


Switch off. In this tech-obsessed, engine-driven, visual-infused world, listening to subtle sounds and earnest messages gets sidetracked. You are probably familiar with the scenes of couples dining together, but immersed in their cellphone scrolling. Alas, a walk in the neighborhood may be punctuated by unpleasant blasts from leaf-blowers, motorcycles, and amped-up radios blasting from cars passing by. You’ll need a better spot or better time. Leave your own electronic devices behind.


Open up. Expand your physical presence, literally. Breathe deeply. Gesture widely. Unfold.


Pay attention. Concentrate on sounds or, in human exchanges, attend to the words. Stifle the urge to interrupt, correct, or insert your own stories. Silence is a learned behavior. It requires practice.
Picture
WHY?
Better listening can enrich the relationships in your life in many significant ways. You will be able to:


Engage with the natural world. Wind sighing, trees rustling, creatures scuffling, birds calling.


Unite with your significant other. Allow them to express “This is how I feel. This is what I think.”


Deepen understandings with your children. Slow down, be present in the same world. Parents, however, need not be playmates. Share.


Empathize with your friends. Dialogue is an interactive see-saw, not a two-way street where vehicles whiz past each other.


Connect and cooperate with your colleagues. Good ideas can be delivered by soft voices.


Get in touch with yourself. Listen to the kinds of music that connect you with your emotions and memories, past or current.
Picture
WHEN?
Starting small is often the best way, but do insert practice into your daily life. Create routines. For example, a focus on listening as you take a walk can help that behavior to grow and infuse other parts of your life.


WHERE?
Wherever you are. Although World Listening Day is mostly about soundscapes, MOTAL contends that Listening Week can be about the ways paying attention can also enhance relationships and improve learning. To that end, you may enjoy the following references. For example, did you know that listening is a significant part of the expected curriculum in the military? And that marriage and family counselors who help others improve their life interactions must be good listeners in order to help their clients be . . . good . . . listeners?


Supportive Articles
Standards for the English Language Arts


10 Steps To Effective Listening


Listening to People


Origin of "I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand."? - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange


How to Apply Active Listening in the Workplace | MySECO


WORLD LISTENING DAY - July 18, 2021 | National Today


Acoustic Ecology and Ethical Listening | Center for Humans & Nature


R. Murray Schafer – The Living Composers Project


Thank you for “listening,”
Submitted by Greta Nagel


P.S. State Public School Curriculum Standards for the English Language Arts address Reading, Writing, Speaking, and Listening—and, in many cases, Visual Literacy, A scan of standards reveals that specifics regarding Listening are scarce. Very. On another day, MOTAL may want to explore that dearth of detail. Is it lack of attention? Of knowledge? Teachers must have more to do and say than “Put on your listening ears.”
First Last

Comments are closed.
    Funded Project Announcement Video:

    ​Your Baby's Amazing Brain
    Picture
    WE ARE LOOKING FOR DONORS
    The high-tech mobile museum
    Your Baby's Amazing Brain
    Picture
    CLICK HERE FOR NEXT VENUE
    MOTAL Creates Traveling
    Exhibitions

    that are leased by institutions
    such as

    museums, libraries, schools,
    and universities.
    If you would like more
    information
    Email HERE
    A Class Action:
    The Grassroots Struggle
    for School Desegregation in California

    Traveling Exhibition
    CLICK HERE TO FIND OUT MORE!
    Picture
    Hunt Branch Library Grand Reopening
    Featuring A Class Action
    Exhibition

    ​NOW on Display Until October 13, 2024
    Picture
    The Hunt Library address is:
    201 S. Basque Avenue, Fullerton, CA 92833
    which is north of Valencia Avenue,
    just around the corner from the Fullerton School District office.

    You Can Visit A Class Action Exhibition
    Tuesdays, Wednesdays, & Thursdays
    10AM - 4:00PM
    Every Third Saturday
    9:00AM - 3:00PM

    The exhibition tells the story of the influential court case, Mendez et al. v Westminster School District et al. Our award-winning exhibition’s full title is A Class Action: The Grassroots Struggle for School Desegregation in California. This will be its seventeenth venue.​

    We Also Have a Hanging Version!

    Picture
    Two Roads, One Journey:
    Education in China and the U.S
    Traveling Exhibition
     
    CLICK HERE TO FIND OUT MORE!
    Picture
    Here is a direct Link to our
    MOTAL YouTube Channel:
    MOTAL - The Museum of Teaching and Learning
    Picture
    While you are there, please click
    on the SUBCRIBE button which is FREE!

    Like, Follow, and Subscribe!

    Subscribe to receive our Articles and Newsletters CLICK HERE
Copyright © 2011– Museum of Teaching and Learning. 
​All rights reserved. Disclosures.
247 E Amerige Avenue Fullerton, CA 92832​, USA

  • HOME
  • What We Do
    • Artifacts >
      • Artifact of the Month
      • Artifact Group and Index
    • Exhibitions >
      • Your Baby's Amazing Brain
      • A Class Action >
        • Exhibition Layout
        • Manuscript and Photographs
        • Artifacts
        • Recordings and Documentary
        • Docent Support
        • Classroom Materials
        • Suggested Events
        • Marketing Materials
        • Venues
        • What People Are Saying
        • Acknowledgements
      • Memories of Mexican Schools Listening Station
      • Two Roads, One Journey >
        • Objectives
        • Our Audience
        • The Experience
        • Exhibition Floor Plan
        • Venues
        • Creative Team
      • Past Exhibitions
    • Podcasts
    • Programs >
      • Artifact Collection
      • Artifact Group and Index
      • Learn
      • Bookshop
      • Resources
  • About Us
    • About MOTAL
    • Our History
    • Board Members
    • Behind the Scenes
    • Events
  • Contact
  • MOTAL Articles