Lesson Structure: Classroom Delivery Skills BWR006

There are 8 lessons:

1. Interpersonal Communication in Education

•         Basic principles of communication
• Verbal and non-verbal communication
• Factors affecting communication
•      Self-awareness and communication
•          Reactive patterns
• ​        Intentions
•         Teacher student ratios
•         Factors affecting communication in a classroom
•         Student diversity
•         Student expectations
•         Teacher’s needs and expectations
•         Society and culture
•         Communication and education approaches
•         Teacher-centred and student-centred learning
•         Verbal skills for classroom teaching
•         Questioning skills
•         Lecturing or giving a talk
•         Elements of lecturing.2.    Listening Skills
•        Stages of listening
•        Key elements of listening in a classroom
•        Obstacles to listening
•        Anxiety
•     Hearing
•        Lack of interest
•        Bias
•        Selective attention
•        Negativity
•     Listening skills
•       Active listening
•       Empathic listening
•       Responding to received communications

• What is motivation
• Variables of motivation
• Theories of motivation
• Maslow’s theory of motivation
• Motivations
• Primary motivator, Unlearned motivators
• Secondary or learned motivators
• Motivation and anxiety
• Motivation and distress.

• Incentives
• Internal and external incentives
• Relational nature of incentives
• Enhancing intrinsic motivators
• Social reinforcers as incentives
• Influence of groups on individual motivation
• Social loafing

• Motivation and goals
• Expectations
• Vicious and virtuous cycles
• Practical applications
• Assessing a person’s current situation
• Dealing with emotions
• Identifying existing barriers to learning
• Establishing goals and priorities
• Locating and applying useful resources.

• Flight or fight response
• Long term problems
• What happens when a person is stressed
• Stress management program

• What is conflict
• Conflict handling techniques
• Anger
• Dealing with anger in others
• Modifying anger
• Role play and conflict management.

• What is negotiation?
• Establishment groups
• Community groups
• Joint problem solving approach
• Effective negotiating behaviour
• Mediation
• Mediator’s responsibilities
• Facilitation
• Attributes of a good facilitator
• Balance of power
• Power imbalance
• Group work and discussion
• Conflict training exercises.

Learning Goals:  Classroom Delivery Skills

• Explain the role of communication between individuals in optimising the benefit of education.
• Describe and use strategies to improve listening in order to correctly understand what another person is communicating to you.
• Explain motivation as a factor in the teaching-learning situation and in the cultivation of an inquisitive approach to learning.
• Select and cultivate motivational factors appropriate to particular classroom situations.
• Describe practical techniques which can be used by an educator to motivate their students.
• Describe practical techniques that can be used by an educator for managing their own stress,
• and also assisting students in stress management.
• Identify, analyse and devise methods for dealing with conflict in an education setting.
• Explain how to apply practical techniques to facilitate mediation in conflict situations in an educational setting.

Each lesson culminates in an assignment which is submitted to the Academy, marked by the academy’s tutors and returned to you with any relevant suggestions, comments, and if necessary, extra reading.

This course is taught by:

Lee Raye

M.A. (hons) Celtic Studies, (the University of Aberdeen); M.St. Celtic Studies, (the University of Oxford)

Lee is a PhD candidate at Cardiff University with degrees from Aberdeen and Oxford. He has written two books, digitalised another and written several academic papers. He has been interviewed by National Geographic and presented papers at eight different national and international conferences. Lee’s native language is English and, if asked, he is always happy to help students with their English spelling and grammar. He is also a keen proponent of the digital revolution and dreams of a world where all books are available instantly to be read, searched or treasured. Although he mainly writes non-fiction, he loves Victorian literature as well as modern fiction and poetry of all kinds. His academic knowledge of medieval events, cultures and the history of Britain’s environment make him especially qualified to help students interested in writing sci-fi and fantasy.

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