This study has been very fun to undertake. I am not done collecting data and I won't be until late next week. I have been interested to see if there are other strategies that might also help in the development of active listening skills. One of the things that I have originally contemplated doing my research on from the beginning was mindfulness but I didn't really know quite how to weave it all together. I guess that the new question that I have been led to is: " Does mindfulness improve the active listening skills of my first grade students?" I think that using mindfulness as a strategy to improve active listening skills would be really interesting to take on. Once I have a clearer understanding of the effectiveness of my strategies I can have a clearer understanding of how to go about improving it.
I am also interested in the connection between executive functioning and active listening skills. Executive functions are a set of cognitive processes that are necessary for the cognitive control of behavior: selecting and successfully monitoring behaviors that facilitate the attainment of chosen goals. I wonder if there is a way to improve active listening skills by also working on executive functions. I am unaware of how one would do this ,but it seems that if a child is unable to pay attention and focus that active listening skills would be heavily impacted.
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