Communication Reflective Essay

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Communication is the key to partnership and humanity as a whole. As I work in a kindergarten through eigth grade school I come into contact with a lot pf people. I find communicating faily easy. As I had conversations with all personnel listed in the assignment I have realized that I enjoy talking with others. I speak with students on a daily basis as I teach middle schoolers everyday. There are different conversations that a teacher can have with a student. We can directly speak as in a classroom setting, we can speak as to small talk conversation, an heart to heart conversation, it all depends on the outcome needed of the conversation. This particular student I was talking to she was expressing concern about her upcoming exams within …show more content…

I was having a conversation with a Language Arts teacher and she was telling me how the district exam was being scored ad how there was mistakes in the answer key. We both expressed concern for the level of communication at the district level. That there was not essential function of district personnel responsibility and this posses confusion of who is in charge. I felt this conversation was productive because the outcome was for us to meet again and see if we can propose a change to our principal and district curriculum person. At my school parents are very involved and volunteer at the school and as an ESE teacher I speak with them often. I always try to understand their frame of reference. I am a parent as well so I can empathize with their concerns. This most recent conversation with a parent was small talk. We discussed school events and the child’s extracurricular …show more content…

Personally I feel that I am better with an informal style of communication. Although, I can formally communicate, I feel that need to write down questions and information to stay organized with a formal conversation of interview. I did not notice a glaring pattern relation to status, however I did notice within generation and/ or educational level. I am going to talk to a student differently then I talk to my principal and district personnel due to the fact the there is a difference within the background knowledge. Even when I speak with parents reviewing test data at IEP meetings, I will adjust my vocabulary for them to understand the information presented. I would not consider it filtering because I am not altering what is said, but the extent of explanation of what the information is conveying about their

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