Classroom Delivery Skills

DESCRIPTION

This course develops the "people skills" side of training. It shows you how to handle students more effectively; how to enthuse them and keep them committed to their studies; and how to diffuse problems that might undermine their ability to effectively learn.

LESSON STRUCTURE

There are 8 lessons in this course:

1. Interpersonal Communication in Education
2. Listening Skills
3. Understanding Motivation
4. Motivational Factors
5. Applying Motivation to Education
6. Stress Management
7. Conflict Management
8. Mediation & Negotiation

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

AIMS

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.

DELIVERY

Correspondence

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