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.

of different languages (semiotic modes) used in communication. The author recalls that verbal languages are always accompanied by gestures and facial expressions, and that written language comes accompanied by tables and graphs. We must therefore also pay attention to the visual languages that always accompany verbal language.

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