Communication Skills for Teaching

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Communication Skills for Teaching

• Evertson, Chapter 8

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• Effective communicator skills
• Constructive assertiveness?describe concerns
• Empathic responding?listen to students
  perspectives
• Problem solving?work with students for a plan for
  change

• Elements of assertiveness
• Clear statement of problem
• Unambiguous body language
• Insistence of resolution of problem
• It is not
• Hostility
• Argumentative
• Inflexible

• Empathic Responding
• Awareness and acceptance of students
  perspectives
• Open lines of communication
• Help students deal constructively withproblems
• It needs
• Listening and processing
  skills

Accept feelings
Confirm and clarify

• Problem Solving
• Identify the problem
• Select a solution
• Obtain a commitment

• Talking with Parents
• Parents team members/know their kids
• Be prepared and organized
• Parents may have had problems in school
• Document your concerns