How to Use the Listening Center in Your Classroom

By Kurt Schwengel

How to Use the Listening Center in Your Classroom How to Use the Listening Center in Your Classroom

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Get ready to meet your new best friend: the cordless listening center! I have been using the listening center for my center time activities for over 10 years. The regular (with cords) listening center is a great tool, but the cordless listening center is a fantastic tool.

Instructions

Difficulty: Easy

Step1
Buy the Califone cordless listening center which will include the receiver and six headphones. Make sure your receiver is not the same frequency (color coded) as your neighbor.
Step2
Place the receiver next to whatever audio device you will be running your listening center from. It will hook up to any device with a headphone jack including tape players, boom boxes, CD players, iPods and computers.
Step3
Buy an extra AC adapter when you buy the listening center so that you can keep both the headphone charger and the receiver plugged in at all times.
Step4
Find or build a place to store the headphones, preferably out of the kids' reach.
Step5
Create activities for the kids to do other than reading along with books.
Step6
Properly use the listening center in your classroom and it will be like having another adult in the room at all times.

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on 4/18/2008 i am going to do this!

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on 4/18/2008 love it!

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eHow Expert: Kurt Schwengel

Kurt Schwengel

Expert: Education

Profession: Kindergarten Teacher

Location: Santa Monica, CA

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