Communication skills Part A Building an effective teacherlearner

Communication skills Part A: Building an effective teacher-learner relationship GRACE Session 7 A

Getting started: Day 1 Involves: 1. What you say 2. How you say it

Guiding Principles for Teaching 1. Actively involve the learner 2. Relate learning to understanding and solving real life problems 3. Build on the current knowledge and skills of the student 4. Include opportunities for self direction 5. Provide constructive feedback and encourage self assessment and feedback from peers 6. Encourage reflection 7. Be a good role model Adapted from Kaufman (2003)

Planning a student program FAIR PRINCIPLES • Feedback: Provide feedback to students • Active: Encourage active learning • Individual: Modify for individual learner • Relevant: Ensure learner sees relevance • Harden & Laidlow (2013)

1. What to say: Getting started Write a script to welcome your new student. Include a brief account of: 1. Who you are and your area of practice 2. Your view of learning in the workplace and your role 3. Your expectations of how you and the student might work together to develop a program (using the FAIR principles) 5 mins

2. How you say it • Work in pairs • Decide on roles: – supervisor – new student • We will structure the opportunity for each of you to take both roles

Round 1 How you say it: using your script Participant A: supervisor Participant B: new student Student will provide verbal feedback to the supervisor using the following stems: 1. I like the way you… 2. Perhaps you might…. 3. It was really good when you….

Practising your script: Timing bells for each stage

Swap roles and repeat

What happened? What did you learn?