Communication for Teachers & Trainers

Cheri J. Simonds, Anna M. Wright, Pamela J. Cooper

978-1-68036-800-0

Communication for Teachers and Trainers provides educators of all types the means to analyze, develop, and facilitate their own and their students’ communication behaviors. It is designed to be both theoretical and pragmatic, providing teachers and trainers the rationale for using certain communication strategies and the practical means to employ those strategies in the classroom. Numerous and varied activities appear throughout the text, encouraging readers to engage with both the text’s content and their own experiences and preferences. Cheri Simonds, Anna Wright, and Pamela Cooper call upon material key to current classroom practices while consciously imparting information from renowned educators. The authors also address culture, students with special needs, technology, ethics, sexism, and racism in the classroom.

Communication for Teachers and Trainers covers a wide range of classroom communication issues, including interpersonal and small group communication; listening skills; verbal and nonverbal communication; and instructional strategies. By combining theory, practical advise, and personal experiences from teachers, this text focuses on the reasons for using certain communication strategies and how to implement them.

Chapter 1: Foundations of Classroom Communication
Chapter 2: Interpersonal Communication
Chapter 3: Listening
Chapter 4: Language
Chapter 5: Instructional Strategies and Lesson Planning
Chapter 6: Presenting Content and Engagement Strategies
Chapter 7: Leading Instructional Discussions
Chapter 8: Facilitating Activities and Collaboration
Chapter 9: Multicultural Communication
Chapter 10: Influence

Illustrates different cultural influences on classroom communication
Includes user-friendly boxes, tables, and in-chapter review questions
Covers listening and language in-depth, addressing cultural, mental, and physical barriers to verbal and nonverbal communication and student communication apprehension
Emphasizes the importance of understanding personal communication styles and how that affects teaching styles
Extends coverage on instructional methods and planning, and facilitating discussion
Provides presentation instruction and strategies on engaging student audiences

a focus on how research informs practice as well as how to translate research into practice;
deliberate threading of themes for how specific communication knowledge and skills enhance the relational climate of the classroom (including communication competence; teacher immediacy, credibility, and clarity; social emotional learning; and multicultural considerations);
new content on lesson planning, meeting EdTPA requirements, ADDIE, Social Emotional Learning, and Multicultural Perspectives; aligning lessons to national standards;
suggestions for trainers in planning instruction for adult learners; a redirection from public speaking for teachers, to various strategies to engage students;
a Chapter 5 to include Instructional Choices and Lesson Planning based on state or national standards and more practical suggestions on how to plan, prepare, and engage students in the presentation of content;
significant reorganization and streamlining of the information in all chapters as well as removing any costly permission entries;
a rearrangement of Chapters 9 and 10;
significant streamlining and updating of information in both Chapters 9 and 10;
revised reading objectives and discussion prompts located at the end of each chapter objective to broaden the scope of discussion and to engage students in a more interactive classroom. These tools allow students opportunities to prepare for participation in an instructional discussion;
an in-depth Instructor’s Manual with additional activities and test questions; and
sample Lesson Plans for Social Emotional Learning Standards.

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