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%TEACHING COMMUNICATION SKILLS 790320
How odd it is that college professors are expected to
teach college and university students---without ever
having spent any significant amount of time focused upon
how best to help students learn. Most college and
university professors have spent no time in formal efforts
to pass from one generation to another helpful insights
into how to be a helpful teacher. Each generation of
college and university professors is expected to reinvent
effective teaching from scratch. Not even practicing
teachers at the college and university level spend much of
their time listening to each other's insights and
suggestions regarding the ways of effectively helping
students to grow through their intellectual and affective
developmental stages. The few who do, tend to be isolated
in departments of teacher education dealing with "lower
level" future teachers. Such teachers are not respected by
"upper level" professors who value course content more
than students.
What is especially odd is the way in which professors
who do not know how to listen to what students have to
say---are expected to help those students learn how to
communicate. Since the professors are not interested in
the students as persons, nor in what they have to say as
persons, the focus of the courses on communication tends
to be upon the mechanics of verbal communication. The
content of the efforts at communication is regarded as of
no concern, except that the content must not threaten the
professor who is going to grade the paper. Is it any
wonder that students show little interest in
communicating---when there is nobody willing to listen to
what they have say themselves?
An essential step toward helping students improve
their communication skills will be to improve the
listening skills, ability, and interest of college and
university professors. Professors who have blockages to
listening to what students have to say---will not be able
to educe meaningful communication efforts from their
students. Students will not be interested in learning the
mechanics of effective communication---unless they can see
that there is somebody to be reached by the use of those
mechanics. If the teacher of the mechanics can't be
reached, who can?
(c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in
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