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This article shares ways to teach listening skills in English, and to teach empathy skills to students.

When I first started teaching, I would try to do everything : I'd be the one to talk, to model thinking something through, to explain, to raise questions, to answer them. But the trouble with this was, I later realized: If I was doing everything, what were my students doing? If I was the one asking questions, how was I letting them build curiosity and inquiry? If I was the one answering questions, what opportunities were they getting to analyze and explain? Many a responsible