Communication skills and how you can be a better teacher

A large part of the planning of a teacher is to teach not only what but how you teach. The same principle applies to the methods of effective communication with parents, other teachers, students and administrators. However, this part is hard to remember when a teacher is suddenly in a particularly difficult and / or difficult circumstances.

The good news for all teachers is that the methods of effective communication to a new and experienced teachers can be taught the same way,and hopefully they can develop positive relationships between pupils and teachers a result, administrators, parents and even among the learners themselves.

Before communication activities

The errors are not always errors. Before you judge or jump to self-defense, to gather the facts, the special situation of the class. This could mean that collect children from grades first and second semester and all the criteria that went into its calculation. You may need toCool off and pick up some notes taken on student performance in that particular class for several sessions.

Having this information at a meeting or while on the phone. Not only increases the validity of the data can be useful for those hard to reach places, where you suddenly have the feeling of losing objectivity.

Communication Methods

* Be nice. Formulating the problem in their own words. One way to begin is to say, "If I understandYou are right, it is ... "This gives you time to think about your next steps, thinking of practical solutions. This also has an effect of calming the waters for adults and children.

* Offer to show your support rather than one, dissatisfaction, anger or contempt.

* Be organized. Discuss follow-up measures to monitor a specific problem of communication constant. These alternatives may include an e-mail to participate in a follow-up note, a fax or a school month.

CommunicativeTechniques should also apply to the heart of your approach and should bring to class. communicative interaction promotes collaboration, promotes the safety of children, allowing them to express their ideas and opinions and gives them the feeling that they are useful, something to do. Under this approach, the errors are as is natural, the process of learning can be seen and corrected only if the study of grammar.

To you: In what situations do you fight with yourselfeffective communication? There has been a member of "tolerant" in communication? At what point of breakdown of communication? What did you do about it?