Do Your Students Always Follow Your Directions?

Hey teaching friends! I don’t know about you, but I dread when I hear the word “huh?” It makes me cringe because I know I will have to explain everything again. For the 50th time. In the last 5 minutes.

Well, I have come to realize that listening skills take some practice, like any other skill we wish for students to learn.

Much like sharing, standing in line the correct way, and holding a pencil, these are teachable moments that have to be continuously practiced until they are second nature.

But listening skills and following directions still seems to be overlooked as when you are already flustered from having 5 children come to you at the same moment because they are clueless about what to do – even with visual cues – that moment is not the best to try to reinforce the idea of listening attentively the first time.

So, I created a fun little product that does focus on those listening skills! {And there IS a sample version for you to test run yourself! Keep reading…}

You can use this resource as a whole group activity – or even as a center activity so that you do not even have to be present!

And it won’t take hours to implement – even with a full group discussion of the ideas, the total time investment a week would be no more than 15 minutes.