The following is a list of some ideas and general principles that can be applied when communicating with young people:

• All young people can learn, but not in the same way or at the same time.

• All young people can benefit from a caring adult taking the time to be helpful.

• All young people need to have positive experiences in school. Grades are not the only measure of success at school.

• All young people need to develop thinking skills, not just problem solving and remembering facts.

The basic rules of communication with young people can be summarized as follows:

1. Attend the speaker: - Give nonverbal clues you are listening, solicit continued input through verbal acknowledgement, and make contact. If you are doing other things while you are listening, then you are not really listening. This is the message you transmit to a person. Listening is the basis of good communication.

2. Paraphrase the speaker: - Report in your own words what you have heard from the speaker. This reduces the likelihood of misunderstanding and shows the person that you have been listening.

3. . Reflect the speaker’s feelings: - This is quite a difficult skill to master but really simple once the basic premise is understood. Success here requires you to be able to paraphrase content and then go to the next step by adding a feeling statement on the basis of what you have understood. I.e. If Mary says “I do not want to go home I hate my brother” a paraphrase would be “you hate your brother” If you want to turn this into a reflection of feeling statement add something like this “ When you talk about not wanting to go home because you hate your brother I get a real sense of fear”.

4. Summarise the conversation: - A brief summary of a conversation allows you to make sure that you have understood all the most relevant points being made by the young person. It is also another chance to eliminate misunderstandings.

5. In you role as a teacher, use self disclosure only for the benefit of the young person: - Self disclosure refers to talking about self, reporting personal experiences, sharing opinions and offering personal perceptions. In helping relationships with young people self disclosure should benefit the young person. I.e. if a young person tells you they are lonely you may say “when I went to school I was so lonely sometimes I would cry”.

6. Interpret behavior: - You must interpret or synthesize clues through personal filters. Then judgments can be made and opinions formed. Remember though to be careful do not confuse opinion with fact. This leads to conflict. But communication with young people requires you to gauge more than just the spoken word.

7. Probe sparingly: - Try to ask open ended questions with young people when probing. Avoid those types of questions that simply allow a yes or no answer. A question like “What happened to you today?” is likely to gain much more information than did you have a good day?”

8. Give constructive feedback: - The goal is not confrontation. You should try to give constructive feed back. Build on the positives do not just criticize. Do not give feedback in unsolicited circumstances unless it is your role to do so.

.About the Author:

Gary Hadler B.Ec, Dip.Ed, MBA Has had over 15 years teaching experience. He is a qualified teacher and an IB assistant examiner. To read Gary’s latest article visit http://www.tuition.com.hk/common-entrance-exam.htm http://www.tuition.com.hk/common-entrance-exam.htm” target=”_new”>UK Common Entrance Exam Information about the UK Common Entrance exam.

Posted: December 22nd, 2007 under Children, Communication, Education, Schooling.
Comments: none

Everything that bothers us in our life can cause stress. Someone, for example, can feel stress doing some hard and long-term work like writing an essay or doing the house.

Probably you do it not every day, but when you bother with it can cause stress. Sometimes we can feel stress during the meeting with somebody who is very important to your life or to you work. When we try to do something in order to impress or to influence we can be under the stress. But if we want to impress someone sometimes we are to make changes in our life: wearing style, eating preferences. Probably such measures causing stress come from communication as Heidegger stayed, but it is not so every time.

But nevertheless, when we are going to do something we are to prepare and it requires some communication, so it is very important to communicate in order to be aware but we should know that such communication could be stressful for you.

One more important thing which was pointed by Heidegger is that stress is a variety of alienation. If we turn to Marx’s works we can see that he said that work is a variety of alienation and stress is an exit from what is important in life that is why in any way we are aliens from our life. Persons who try to make more incomes to the family due to its work often feel stress and become alien not only for the society, but as well for the family.

Also we can observe the cases of alienation when one person is scared of other person; it causes stress and alienation as well. The scared person does not want to visit public places in order not to meet someone, and it creates a kind of crack in life. More other factors can influence the alienation and stress so we should be aware of some of them.

It goes without saying that Heidegger proposed some fresh and interesting ideas as for the issues of stress streaming. There are many persons on the world and many problems and factors which can cause stress. Without any doubt we can say that our family, work and friend can the main reasons for stress, but at the same time only they can help to get through such stress situation and to enjoy the life.

.About the Author:

Andrew Bolton is an experienced freelance writer. Having successfully completed a number of academic assignments, he now is willing to share his experience in academic writing including Dissertation Editing and Dissertations Proposal providing students dissertation help.

Posted: November 25th, 2007 under Communication, Stress, Life, Society, Being-in-the-world, Heidegger, Family.
Comments: none

The research conducted in the field of awareness, attitude, and behavioral tendency measurement among rural and urban population is barely the top of the ice berg.

The research findings do prove, that attitude of the population towards pesticide use is negative and that there is a need to implement educative programs for farm families. First of all, these families have the highest level of risk and, at the same time, they tend to under evaluate the danger associated with pesticide use. The research proved that population is able and willing to make rational choices and even though the average level of the degree to which people value own ability to cover the risks associated with pesticide use, they are still willing to be active participants in the situation when it comes to own responsibility for different types of risks.

The research findings would be particularly useful for those willing to implement programs that raise awareness among population and need practical data to assess the possible reaction to the message about risks associated with food purchase. As participants tend to pay particular attention at the labels on the food sold, perhaps, information placed there would be the most effective and bring the greatest results. At the same time, on average, population does not have particularly negative attitude towards pesticide use, as very few look for the ways to minimize the adverse affects of exposure to chemicals even though everybody has a general understanding. Consequently, even though the research findings show that there a high level of disagreement, attitude of participants on practice is less negative.

Continuation of research in this field would allow gathering of effective statistical data needed to increase the level of communication about risks associated with pesticide use. As communication of such type of information might result in creating polarity in opinions of public, additional research would help to establish the required message, target audience that in the first place needs detailed explanation, and predict the outcomes. It would also increase the level of control over the situation. Even though there is little research conducted in this field at the present moment as business prefer simply to ignore the issue of customer awareness, it highly advisable to concentrate on these issues because there are also ethical issues – such as the right to choose – aside from pure health risks involved in the issue.

The findings of the research would helpful for development of effective risk messages to consumers and also would estimate the level of efforts that should be implemented in this field to raise awareness.

.About the Author:

Andrew Shwartz is staff-writer at Custom-Writing.org, custom essay service. Andrew has been providing assistance to students with cause and effect essays and Custom Paper Term for over 2 years. He is always willing to share his own experiences, provide quality custom writing services and writing tips to students of all academic levels.

Posted: October 30th, 2007 under Communication, Increase The Level Of Communication, Effective Risk Messages, Types Of Risks, Negative Attitude, Attitude.
Comments: none