Online Classroom Delivery Skills Course

How to Teach in a Classroom

Learn to teach and communicate with your students! 

• Enrol and commence studying anytime

• Work at your own pace and focus on things of greater interest to you.

• Great tutors , highly qualified, and with years of experience stand ready to support you every step of the way 

There are many factors that influence the effectiveness of education: the curriculum; the information that is included or excluded; the skills and knowledge that the student begins with; choice of physical resources; delivery techniques; the student’s commitment and aptitude; and the teacher’s teaching abilities. 

Of overriding significance, however, is the teaching-learning relationship that develops between student and teacher, and that depends to a great extent on how they communicate with each other. Regardless of ability, if the teacher cannot communicate effectively to facilitate and encourage learning, the content of a course or training session will simply not be absorbed as intended. On the other hand, learning is improved when the student is able to communicate his/her needs and understanding.

There are 8 lessons in this course:

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.
      
3. Understanding Motivation
   • 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.
      
4. Motivational factors
   • Incentives
   • Internal and external incentives
   • Relational nature of incentives
   • Enhancing intrinsic motivators
   • Social reinforcers as incentives
   • Influence of groups on individual motivation
   • Social loafing.
      
5. Applying Motivation to Education
   • 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.
      
6. Stress Management
   • Flight or fight response
   • Long term problems
   • What happens when a person is stressed
   • Stress management program.
      
7. Conflict Management
   • What is conflict
   • Conflict handling techniques
   • Anger
   • Dealing with anger in others
   • Modifying anger
   • Role play and conflict management.
      
8. Mediation and Negotiation
   • 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.

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.

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