Some basic skills can help you to be a more effective communicator in the classroom. This Teaching Tip explores: Show
Barriers to listening
Strategies for active listeningThe following strategies are intended to promote active listening, or a type of listening with the goal to “develop a clear understanding of the speaker’s concern and also to clearly communicate the listener’s interest in the speaker’s message” (McNaughton, Hamlin, McCarthy, Head-Reeves, & Schreiner, 2008, p. 224).
Barriers to accurate perception
Strategies for accurate perception
Barriers to effective verbal communication
Strategies for effective verbal communication
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ResourcesListen to an audio version of this Teaching Tip: "Effective communication: Barriers and strategies" Teaching Tip (MP3). CTE teaching tips
Other CTE resourcesConsider participating in the CTE’s Instructional Skills Workshop, an intensive, collaborative learning model that uses videotaped micro-teaching and peer feedback sessions to support participants' teaching reflection and growth. Other resources
This Creative Commons license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon our work non-commercially, as long as they credit us and indicate if changes were made. Use this citation format: Effective Communication: Barriers and Strategies. Centre for Teaching Excellence, University of Waterloo. What is the term for the receiver of a message filtering the message and assigning meaning?Receiver. The person who receives the Message: Decodes the Message and Assigns meaning to the words. Noise. Anything that interferes with or distorts the Message being transformed.
Which communication channel would be the most information rich?Explanation: The face to face conversation provides the highest information richness. The batter and quick exchange of the message and the information are possible only through face to face communication.
What has research shown to be true about nonverbal communication?Nonverbal Communication and Emotions
One's appearance, posture, and facial expressions send messages to others, and provide further cues to meaning. Research suggests that nonverbal behavior accounts for between 60% and 70% of all meaning (Mehrabian, 1981).
Which of the following statements is not a barrier to communication?Answer: Active Listening is not a barrier to effective communication. Common Barriers to Effective Communication is lack of attention, use of jargon. emotional barriers and taboos.
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