What Communication Is Used In Today’s Education Settings?
Published by communicationtype, on Mar 10 2010, in the categories: In education, types of communication
The teaching communication - Communication was defined as a particular form of exchange relationship between two or more persons or between two or more groups.
Essential for the act of communication are:
1) the relationship between individuals or between groups
2) exchange, transmission and reception of meanings
3) the wanted or unwanted change of the employees behavior
The teaching communication elements are:
- issue of the teaching message by the teacher or of other information source, from a certain distance;
- the channel through the message is transmitted
- the message reception by students
- the storage and its processing in to decision making (formulating responses by the student, corrections or additions by the teacher)
Types of communication - Depending on the interaction: - interpersonal; - group; - table; - public or media; - intra-subject. Depending of the type of code used: verbal (oral and written); paraverbal; nonverbal. Depending on the channel used: direct (immediate); media (when intermediate channels are used such as books, television, radio, phone, internet, cameras, etc).
The teaching communication has several characteristics which makes it to differ by other form of interpersonal communications: - takes place between two or more agents: teachers and students, with the common purpose of their training, using an oral communication, written, nonverbal, etc. - educational message is designed, selected, organized and logically structured by the teacher, based on specific educational objectives set out in school programs. - the teaching style of communication is determined by the teaching concept of the teacher.
The rules of an effective communication are: - you have to listen, to keep account of the views and of the others interests;- you have to observe, to be interested in what happens in the communication situation and to understand the state of receptors; - you have to analyze and know the receptor situation; - you have to express yourself, to expose your views and feelings near the communication subject; - you have to control, to follow the quality and effectiveness of communication.
To be effective, the teaching communication must have certain characteristics:
1. The teacher: clear messages; precision;the use of an appropriate and accessible speech; use the right form of the speech; to have an logical structure in the all messages sent; an interesting presentation of the training content; creating an appropriate communication
2. Of the students: to have the capacity to concentrate ( in order to receive and understand the messages); to have prior knowledge to learn whatever is next; To be motivated to learn; To know the language used (by teacher or computer)

In the teaching communication , the teacher must make the students feel that they have a vocation in this direction, that is a reliable partner, who wants a genuine dialogue. The communication skills will be demonstrated also thru the ability of listening the students. The most appreciated teachers are those that allow freedom of expression, the teachers that does not make the students feel they are manipulated, judged or advised, but those who give the feeling of safety and communication freedom.
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