A basic tool of learning is communication. Do you agree? Psychologists and teachers are agreed on the fact that students who cannot communicate cannot learn. An essential objective to education therefore, is to develop the communication skills of students; namely: speaking, writing, listening and reading.
It is the teacher’s responsibility to develop communication skills in the classroom. The teacher as facilitator of learning is assumed to have the greater communicative skill. At the same time, teacher as a manager of the classroom setting, he is assumed to be in a position to set up a psychological climate in the classroom that will facilitate communication.
In any learning situation, learning can be more effective if communication does not take a one- way channel but rather a two-way communication relationship between teacher and students in ascending order of their effectiveness. Teachers must be open to any type of communication relationship between him and among his students so that learning will always takes place in the classroom situations. He should learn to accept his errors and learn to correct their errors.
Whichever type of communication relationship is adopted by a teacher depend of course to great extent on the particular theory of teaching he holds and on the particular kind of learning situation he encounters.
By: Delilah O. Dela Rosa | Salian Elementary School | Abucay, Bataan
