INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION

Interpersonal Communication



Interpersonal Communication

Purpose

The purpose of this essay was to provide internal auditors with a summary of the communications skills needed for a successful professional career in teaching.

Introduction

As an instructional leader, you understand how vital the interpersonal relationships between students and teachers, teachers and other teachers, teachers and administrators, school staff personnel, parents, and community members can be for creating a positive successful learning environment for all students. You also realize how detrimental negativity can sometimes be to positive student progress. Our duty as school administrators is to identify, encourage, and maintain behaviors that are associated with the modeling and nurturing of interpersonal relationships that encourage student success. (Birch, 2000)We also have the obligation to identify, address, and change negative behaviors that inhibit positive student progress. Your ability as a campus leader to weaken and eliminate negativity while nurturing and feeding the positive aspects of interpersonal relationships requires that you have the knowledge and ability to plan for and implement the intentional expectation of accentuating the positive for the good of all students.

Discussion

Literature points to a strong link between positive nurturing interpersonal relationships between teachers and students as an important ingredient in the recipe for student success. Socially supportive relationships can have powerful and lasting effects on the lives of children (Cassidy & Shaver, 1999; Richman, Rosenfeld, & Bowen, 1998). Pianta (1999) found that emotionally warm relationships between teachers and students provide students with a sense of security within school settings. It is believed that this sense of wellness promotes exploration and comfort, as well as social, emotional, and academic competence among students. Similarly, Birch (2000) found that students who had closer relationships with teachers were better adjusted academically than students with conflicted teacher-student relationships. Ryan (1999) found that students who perceived their teachers as personally positive and supportive were more likely to feel a greater sense of competence and to be more intrinsically motivated.

It is important to note that personality clashes between teachers and students can and do exist. Ridicule, favoritism, exclusion, and deliberately demeaning behaviors exhibited by teachers toward certain students can be a reality in some situations. It is in these types of situations that a savvy administrator must evaluate the situation, devise a plan and make a change for the better when working closely with the student and teacher, or other stakeholder involved.The importance of communication skills cannot be underestimated. Good communication skills are necessary in all walks of life. The lack of effective communication skills have a negative impact on the personal as well as professional life of a person.

Good communication skills are a prerequisite for health care providers. Ineffective communication, rather than incompetence, precludes the doctor from conveying to the patient that the former has the best interests of the patient in mind.(Ryan, 1999) For instance, a doctor may be knowledgeable and may have considerable expertise in his area of work.However, a patient may feel neglected or ignored if the doctor is not particularly good at ...