The document outlines a capacity-building program focused on effective communication skills for teachers at Double Success Nursery and Primary School in Lagos, Nigeria. It emphasizes the importance of communication in classroom dynamics, including the need for clarity, engagement, and understanding among teachers and students. The session covers various communication techniques, the benefits of visual communication, and strategies for enhancing group communication and interpersonal relationships in an educational setting.

1. EFFECTIVE COMUNICATION SKILLS
FOR TEACHERS IN CLASSROOM
BEIGN A CAPACITY BUILDING PROGRAM
FOR
DOUBLE SUCCESS NURSERY AND PRIMARY SCHOOL
TEACHING STAFF
HELD @ 7, CHURCH CLOSE OFF AGBARO STREET, IDI IROKO
BUS-STOP, IKORODU, LAGOS STATE, NIGERIA

2. Meet the Facilitator
RASHEED, Oluwasegun Kazeem Ph.D
(+234)-8051700164, (+234)-7066867887
kazeemrasheed1440@gmail.com
MNAEAP, EMPM, MNIM, MTRCN, MACSN, CT,
Dip. Digital Mkt., CEAF, CME, W10FE, CMIE,
FMIE, MAPROCON, AMIBRN, MCIEMA (USA)
Lead Principal Facilitator at HEED – A - DINK CONSULT

3. EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION SKILLS
FOR TEACHERS
IN INCLUSION CLASSROOMS

4. Why Effective Communication in
Classroom?
First 5 min.
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Conclusion

5. Instruction depends upon
communication
 Your communication
 Students’ communication ---
with you & classmates
 Class climate

6. Kinds of classroom
communication
 Presentations
 Teaching
 lectures
 Group work
 Interpersonal
 Intercultural

7. Tips for Effective
Communication
 Know your audience
 Express ideas clearly & explicitly
 Check audience’s listening skills
 Gain & keep attention
 Be well organized & prepared
 Use visual aids effectively
 Remember messages are verbal, visual and vocal

8. Effective Visual
Communication in Classroom
 Can be understood in 6 seconds
 Anchor listeners to the key concepts
 Do not put your students in reading mode
 Enhance (aid) your verbal & vocal messages
 Use soft and understandable terms
 Don’t use strange words
 Use words according to the students age

9. Benefits of visual
Communication
 Improves memory
 Speeds comprehension
 Decreases odd time
 Adds to teacher’s credibility
 Decreases nervousness
 Adds interest in teaching

10. Students Recall
70%
10%
72%
20%
85%
65%
After 3 hours After 3 days
Verbal
only
Visual
only
Verbal
and
Visual

11. Group Communication Skills
(students need to learn them)
 Speak clearly & succinctly
 Encourage others to speak
 Don’t monopolize
 Listen well; paraphrase
 Stick to topic/task
 Human relations skills

12. Interpersonal
Communication
 Listen; give attention
 Paraphrase & summarize
 Define terms
 Build rapport; trust
 Show empathy; respect
 Remember messages are verbal, visual,
vocal

13. Class Climates (Gibb categories)
DEFENSIVE
1. Evaluation
2. Control
3. Strategy
4. Neutrality
5. Superiority
6. Certainty
SUPPORTIVE
1. Description
2. Problem Orientation
3. Spontaneity
4. Empathy
5. Equality
6. Provisionalism

14. Intercultural Principles
 Successful comm. depends upon shared meanings.
 Cultural patterns: the group’s collective beliefs, values,
norms
 One’s culture & language affects one’s cognition & learning
 Native language affects one’s world view, beliefs, etc.
 Different cultural practices in education and classroom
 Differences continuum: minor to major.

15. Modern Challenge:
Most Schools have
good infrastructure but
lack good
communicationist in
the classrooms.

16. THANKS FOR LISTENING
GOD BLESS YOU ALL