What is Your Take on Silence?
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Based on the above, which quote resonates best with you. Please explain your answer using examples from your own experience.
The Importance of a Quiet/Comfort Zone
The Benefits of Silence in the Classroom
Encouraging students to keep noise to a minimum has substantial benefits and should become a valuable component of all children’s education, it is claimed.
Dr. Helen Lees, from Stirling University’s school of education, said that teaching children about the benefits of “strong silence” – deliberate stillness that gives them the opportunity to focus and reflect in a stress-free environment – can have a significant effect on pupils’ concentration and behaviour.
Silence can be used to:
Dr. Helen Lees, from Stirling University’s school of education, said that teaching children about the benefits of “strong silence” – deliberate stillness that gives them the opportunity to focus and reflect in a stress-free environment – can have a significant effect on pupils’ concentration and behaviour.
Silence can be used to:
- Adds dramatic effect to a lesson.
- Allow students to think at their own pace (not that of the teacher or their peers).
- Promote focused and improved motor control.
- Increase relaxation and calm.
- Give space for creative, intuitive, or reflective thinking.
- Promote access to the creative and non-verbal right brain.
Questions:
1.In your opinion, do you think silence is important in the learning environment. Explain your answer.
2.What do you think the benefits of silence might be for the learners?
3.What does silence look like to you... please describe in detail.
4. How might you explain the importance of silence to your classmates? parents? teachers?
5.Write a friendly letter to a talkative classmate explaining why you wish for/require silence in the classroom when you are working.
1.In your opinion, do you think silence is important in the learning environment. Explain your answer.
2.What do you think the benefits of silence might be for the learners?
3.What does silence look like to you... please describe in detail.
4. How might you explain the importance of silence to your classmates? parents? teachers?
5.Write a friendly letter to a talkative classmate explaining why you wish for/require silence in the classroom when you are working.
Silence is Sense-able
Select one of the images below... explain what you see/hear/taste/touch/feel? Why did you select this image? How might it fit into a lesson on silence?
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Listening to the Power of Silence - music appreciation lesson
Questions:
1. In your opinion, what do you think this song is really about?
2. Which version of the song do you prefer... the original by Simon and Garfunkel, Pentatonix, or the new version by Disturbed? Explain your answer.
1. In your opinion, what do you think this song is really about?
2. Which version of the song do you prefer... the original by Simon and Garfunkel, Pentatonix, or the new version by Disturbed? Explain your answer.
The Words of Martin Luther King Jr.
Question:
What do you think Martin Luther King Jr. meant in this quote? Explain your answer.
What do you think Martin Luther King Jr. meant in this quote? Explain your answer.
Awkward Silence - What it is and how it can be used effectively?
What is Awkward Silence?
The rule of awkward silence is simple: When faced with a challenging question, instead of answering, you pause and think deeply about how you want to answer.
But make no mistake, this is no short pause. You might go five, 10, or even 15 seconds before offering a response. Which, if you're not used to doing it, will feel very awkward--at first.
The rule of awkward silence is simple: When faced with a challenging question, instead of answering, you pause and think deeply about how you want to answer.
But make no mistake, this is no short pause. You might go five, 10, or even 15 seconds before offering a response. Which, if you're not used to doing it, will feel very awkward--at first.
Why the Rule of Awkward Silence is valuable
We live in a world that demands instant gratification. We want things done immediately. But there's a major problem with all of this instantaneous communication: It doesn't leave time to think. That's right--think. As in, think critically.
Critical thinking calls for deep and careful consideration of a subject. It requires introspection and retrospection. It involves weighing and analyzing facts, and careful reasoning. And it results in making insightful connections. None of this is possible without time. And time has become the biggest luxury on the planet. But when you embrace the rule of awkward silence, you steal back time. Time that used to be wasted on nonsense answers. Time that used to be wasted on telling another person what you think they want to hear, as opposed to what you truly believe.
Once you practice it enough, you will no longer find the rule of awkward silence, well, awkward. Because while taking an extended pause to think things through may seem strange at first, you'll begin to realize many of the advantages it provides.
For example, the rule of awkward silence allows you to:
So, the next time someone asks you a challenging question, or even what seems on the surface to be a simple one, resist the temptation to respond with the first thing that comes to mind.
Instead, embrace the rule of awkward silence, and think before you speak.
We live in a world that demands instant gratification. We want things done immediately. But there's a major problem with all of this instantaneous communication: It doesn't leave time to think. That's right--think. As in, think critically.
Critical thinking calls for deep and careful consideration of a subject. It requires introspection and retrospection. It involves weighing and analyzing facts, and careful reasoning. And it results in making insightful connections. None of this is possible without time. And time has become the biggest luxury on the planet. But when you embrace the rule of awkward silence, you steal back time. Time that used to be wasted on nonsense answers. Time that used to be wasted on telling another person what you think they want to hear, as opposed to what you truly believe.
Once you practice it enough, you will no longer find the rule of awkward silence, well, awkward. Because while taking an extended pause to think things through may seem strange at first, you'll begin to realize many of the advantages it provides.
For example, the rule of awkward silence allows you to:
- Put the outside world on mute
- Exercise your thinking faculties
- Get to root problems more effectively
- Give deeper, more thoughtful answers
- Bring your emotions into balance
- Remain in harmony with your values and principles
- Say what you mean, and mean what you say
- Increase your confidence
So, the next time someone asks you a challenging question, or even what seems on the surface to be a simple one, resist the temptation to respond with the first thing that comes to mind.
Instead, embrace the rule of awkward silence, and think before you speak.