This was presented in the Faculty Development Programme for the Gujarat Government College Teachers, organized by Knowledge Consortium of Gujarat (KCG) at Ahmedabad. In this 90 minutes presentation:12 videos,17 images, #900 words – are used in 24 slides.

1. Communication Skills for Teachers
Dilip Barad
Dept. of English
M.K. Bhavnagar University
27 June 2014
Faculty Development Programme

2. Morgan, Algiro L. in his paper
‘Communication Skills for Teachers’
• “One of the most neglected aspects of teacher
training is thorough preparation in the diverse
communication skills that are needed by good
teachers in today's schools.”

3. Six Important Points: CS 4 T
• Positive Motivation: create interest, enthusiasm, remove
fear and inhibition.
• Effective Body Language: Gestures, body movement with
verbal skills – never sit and teach - Moving in aisles.
• Sense of Humor: do not confuse dirty jokes with humour.
• Understanding the Students: prefer dialogue over
monologue – listen students’ opinion- saint on the stage vs
guide by the side
• Team Formation: helps in mutual
understanding students as well as teachers.
• Technical skills: Up-to-date with latest
techno-tools for teaching.

4. Be precise: Brevity is the Soul
• A Brief History of Communication . . (Video)
• The journey from pre-historic to techno-era in
a few seconds.
• Save time! Time is the most precious.
• (To view this video visit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9KGt3OS4uM&index=2&list=PLSmZQVxjN9_j0Ln3e5i6L
-NDzEpHGNP7W)

5. Newer Generations – Fresh Ideas and
Ideals
• Digital Generation. (Video)
• Do not replace but replenish.
• Click here to view video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rg37kafMsWk&index=4&list=PLSmZQVxjN9_j0Ln3e5i6L-
NDzEpHGNP7W

6. Look for the possibilities beyond the
horizons
• Education for all! (Video)
• Click here to view video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bh3HP51rJs&index=5&list=PLSmZQVxjN9_j0Ln3e5i6L-
NDzEpHGNP7W

7. Learn to unlearn, teach ‘unlearning’:
Adopt – adapt - adept
• Two women at the bus stop. (Video)
• Age is not the barrier for learning new things.
(Video)
• Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMXzuxDXVKA&index=7&list=PLSmZQVxjN9_j0Ln3e5i6L-
NDzEpHGNP7W
• Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=de087u7ylms&index=10&list=PLSmZQVxjN9_j0Ln3e5i6L-
NDzEpHGNP7W

8. Make students sensible towards issues
• Save trees (Video)
• Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-gWkHZ0e1E&index=6&list=PLSmZQVxjN9_j0Ln3e5i6L-
NDzEpHGNP7W

9. Demonstrate! Do not teach, let them
learn!
• Watch this video from movie 3 Idiots.
• (The scene is that of Virus demonstrating nest of crow with eggs of Koyel)

10. Myth Vs Reality
Communication Myths Communication Reality
Communication is a conscious / deliberate
process. (e.g. Osho’s visit to disciple,
father-2 sons,)
Communication is an unconscious process
and it goes on at every moment of time!
We communicate primarily through
‘words’ only. (zoo-zoos)
We communicate through ‘verbal’ as well
as ‘non-verbal signs.
Words mean the same to everyone.
(Pardon, women)
Meaning of the words lies more in
perception of reality.
Communication is a one-sided process
and it is controlled by communicator.
Communication is a two-way process and
it always happens, controlled by none.
Message sent and message received are
the same.
(Video: Hu is . . . (video link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgFHYteJSPk&index=3&list=PLSmZ
QVxjN9_j0Ln3e5i6L-NDzEpHGNP7W
Transmission and reception of message
can never be identical.

11. Penny Ur - 1997
• She identifies some essential qualities, which relate
to teaching rather than other professions:
– I sense where the learner is at, what their problem is: I
feel what they know and what they don’t know.
– I know how to transform what I know about the
language into a form that is accessible to my learners
– I know how to design and administer activities and
exercises that will foster learning
– I know when learning is and is not happening by the
way the learners behave: I don’t need tests
– I get my ‘buzz’ from when the students succeed, learn,
progress
To master this, one requires to practice reflection of
teaching

12. Use of technology as follow-up actions
& CS4T
• Pedagogy is evolving with newer technological
aids for better communication in classroom.
• Various ICT components helps teacher in
enhancing their skills in teaching.
• It also has its deep rooted impact on the
learning of the students.
• Here, we discuss how can we sharpen our
communication skills by using it for
follow-up actions?

13. • SMS, email, scrap, tweet, chat, web spaces, SIG,
etc can be used effectively for:
– Replying questions of the students
– Solving their doubts/queries etc
– Giving some task for next class in advance
– Having group discussion out of the class
– Uploading lesson/presentation to web
spaces
– Running web sites with LMS to check
students progress
– Managing e-groups (SIGs) – file
upload, poll, discussion, photos etc.

14. Social Constructivism
• Social constructivism extends constructivism
into social settings, wherein groups construct
knowledge for one another, collaboratively
creating a small culture of shared artifacts
with shared meanings.
• When one is immersed within a culture like
this, one is learning all the time about how to
be a part of that culture, on many levels.
• Eg. Cup.

15. Pedagogical Pyramidical Structure
based on Bloom’s Taxonomy
LOTs
HOTs

16. Observation is the master key!
• To be the master of effective Communication
Skills, OBSERVE, OBSERVE, OBSERVE; minutely,
meticulously, marvelously.

17. Let’s view this advertisement. We are supposed to identify the product -
Fire crackers - Courier service – anti-roach spray - Gas Cylinder – Save
Fuel - Save Environment – match box –– old age woes
Click or copy / paste to view video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97650bEF434&index=9&list=PLSmZQVxjN9_j0Ln3e5i6L-NDzEpHGNP7W
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An Advanced National Workshop in General
Semantics: 28-30 Jan. 2013

18. How observant are we?
Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubNF9QNEQLA&index=8&list=PLSmZQVxjN9_j0Ln3e5i6L-NDzEpHGNP7W
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An Advanced National Workshop in General
Semantics: 28-30 Jan. 2013

19. Structured education system . . .
Unstructured Life!

20. Always in flux - Change with time
If Monks can, why can’t Teachers?

21. Let us review highly effective skills of
teachers
• Be precise: Brevity is the Soul
• Be contemporary: Newer Generations – Fresh Ideas
and Ideals
• Look for the possibilities beyond the horizons
• Learn to unlearn, teach ‘unlearning’: Adopt – adapt –
adept
• Make students sensible towards issues
• Demonstrate! Do not teach, let them learn!
• Be observant! Avoid jundgmentalism
• Always be in flux - Change with time
• Practice Reflective Teaching

22. Lets conclude - teachers in action
• Video 1: An imaginary picture of a teacher
• Video 2: The reality!
• Video1 link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlEP5uAhr3Y&index=11&list=PLSmZQVxjN9_j0Ln3e5i6L-NDzEpHGNP7W
• Video2 link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amBhZP1b4x4&index=12&list=PLSmZQVxjN9_j0Ln3e5i6L-NDzEpHGNP7W

23. What is the message?
• To get to the core of message, do not ask ‘WHAT’.
• Do not ask ‘What is said or shown?’
• Ask, ‘HOW’ – The ‘How’ of the presentation has
the message for teachers to be effective and
efficient in classroom performance as well as in
professional development.
• In this 90 minutes presentation:
– 12 videos
– 17 images
– #900 words – are used in 24 slides.

24. Thank You…
•Questions????
•Before you ask, ponder this:
PM of I, school visit, questions by students, Nawaz Sharif,
Dawood, Iraq !@?
• www.dilipbarad.com
• dilipbarad@gmail.com