COMMUNICATION SKILLS FOR TEACHING

1 COMMUNICATION SKILLS FOR TEACHING Anna Maria Pessoa de Carvalho Physics Research and TEACHING Laboratory, University of S o Paulo What role do teachers play when introducing an innovative educational proposal? To ensure that TEACHING and learning represent the two sides of a single coin or the two sides of any given class is, and always has been, education s main objective. The possibility of organizing TEACHING in such a way as to foster better learning has been one of the main premises of education since Comenius (1592-1604). However, when dealing with the organization and execution of such TEACHING in classrooms we find teachers who may or may not have the SKILLS necessary to communicate with their students, SKILLS that can facilitate or preclude fulfillment of the TEACHING proposal. Today we clearly understand that any curricular innovation must be accompanied by research that focuses development of said innovation in the classroom and that describes not only the activities proposed for introducing the innovations, but the COMMUNICATION SKILLS that teachers must develop to ensure that their students attain the intended objectives.

development in the classroom. COMMUNICATIVE APPROACHES ACCORDING TO MORTIMER AND SCOTT Prior to introducing the skills teachers need to put scientific discourse into practice in the classroom, we find it interesting to present the work developed by Mortimer and Scott (2002) who propose research focusing the most traditional existing discursive

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