SZ6038 Educational Communication

Faculty of Education
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
0/0/.5. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Alena Bendová, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Lenka Ďulíková, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Miroslav Jurčík, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Lucie Škarková, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Lucie Škarková, Ph.D.
Department of Education – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Olga Bubnová
Supplier department: Department of Education – Faculty of Education
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The aim of the course is to
(a) familiarize students with the specifics of classroom communication. This will be achieved by various teaching methods and forms that will allow students to observe and evaluate the diversity of classroom communication when using them in the instruction;
(b) develop student's ability to reflect specific educational situations in relation to characteristics of classroom communication as well as in relation to individual actors of classroom communication (teacher, teacher assistant, pupil, parent).
• describe and analyze teaching or educational situation (among other, virtual classroom observations on websites rvp.cz are used) in terms of classroom communication, making use of scientific terminology. Propose an alteration to teaching or educational situation, which corresponds with the rules of effective classroom communication.
Learning outcomes
At the end of this course:
• the student discusses selected issues of pedagogical communication. In argumentation, he uses the knowledge gained from the study of professional literature.
• the student evaluates his current pedagogical communication, names its strengths, identifies ways to improve it .;
• the student provides the classmate with functional feedback on specific communication skills and thus demonstrates the acquisition of this skill at the required level and at the same time an understanding of pedagogical communication in a specific pedagogical situation .;
• the student analyzes teaching or educational situations or examples of communication from the school environment (eg anonymized written communication, examples of written feedback, or teaching communication within video recordings from teaching such as virtual observation from the rvp. cz website), tries to suggest an alteration of teaching or educational situation, which corresponds to the rules of effective pedagogical communication.
Syllabus
  • Main topics (syllabus): • 1. Classroom communication and classroom interaction, Verbal communication (spoken and written) and nonverbal communication. The specifics of classroom communication (IFR structure, dialogue in instruction, conditions, methods, content, resources, objectives), Presentation skills – PowerPoint. Feedback - its types, functions, and importance for an individual's learning. Teacher's questions. • 2 Effective parents and teachers' communication in the schools. Effective communication with parents: teacher-pupil - parent. Techniques of interviewing, listening, summarizing, recapitulation. Way of Council - method of communication. • 3. Communication in difficult education situations (use of space in classroom communication, emotional side of classroom communications (acceptance, empathy, positivity, expressivity, humor, etc.). Nonviolent communication.
Literature
    recommended literature
  • ŠEĎOVÁ, Klára, Roman ŠVAŘÍČEK and Zuzana ŠALAMOUNOVÁ. Komunikace ve školní třídě (Communication in classroom). Vyd. 1. Praha: Portál, 2012, 293 pp. ISBN 978-80-262-0085-7. info
  • MEŠKOVÁ, Marta. Motivace žáků efektivní komunikací. Vyd. 1. Praha: Portál, 2012, 135 s. ISBN 9788026201984. info
    not specified
  • Švaříček, R., & Šalamounová, Z. (2013). Vizuální akty ve výukové komunikaci. Pedagogická orientace, 23(1), 48–71.
  • Vybrané studie z časopisu Komenský: http://www.ped.muni.cz/komensky/predesle-rocniky
  • VLČKOVÁ, Kateřina, Kateřina LOJDOVÁ, Josef LUKAS, Jan MAREŠ, Zuzana ŠALAMOUNOVÁ, Tomáš KOHOUTEK, Jarmila BRADOVÁ and Stanislav JEŽEK. Z posluchárny za katedru: Mocenské vztahy ve výuce studentů učitelství (From a Lecture Hall to a Teacher´s Desk Power Relations in Student Teacher Classes). Online. 1., elektronické vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2015, 237 pp. ISBN 978-80-210-8097-3. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.5817/CZ.MUNI.M210-8097-2015. Čítárna Munispace info
  • PALENČÁROVÁ, Jana and Karel ŠEBESTA. Aktivní naslouchání při vyučování : rozvíjení komunikačních dovedností na 1. stupni ZŠ. Vyd. 1. Praha: Portál, 2006, 102 s. ISBN 8073671018. info
  • NELEŠOVSKÁ, Alena. Pedagogická komunikace v teorii a praxi : význam komunikace, vztah učitele k žákovi, komunikace ve škole, ukázky. Vydání 1. Praha: Grada, 2005, 171 stran. ISBN 8024707381. URL info
  • CAZDEN, Courtney B. Classroom discourse : the language of teaching and learning. 2nd ed. Portsmouth: Heinemann, 2001, vi, 208. ISBN 0325003785. info
  • CANGELOSI, James S. Strategie řízení třídy : jak získat a udržet spolupráci žáků při výuce. Vyd. 3. Praha: Portál, 2000, 289 s. ISBN 8071784060. info
  • MAREŠ, Jiří and Jaro KŘIVOHLAVÝ. Komunikace ve škole. Vydání první. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 1995, 210 stran. ISBN 8021010703. info
Teaching methods
Presentations, feedback, reflection, discussion.
Assessment methods
Additional information:
To complete the course successfully:
- is a requirement to make a video recording of one's own output (training of a monological form of pedagogical communication - interpretation) Video interpretation and feedback is submitted to the information system on a predetermined date. The information is placed in an interactive syllabus. -is a requirement for the elaboration of written feedback on video interpretation within a given group of students and incorporation of the obtained feedback into written self-reflection. Written self-reflection (in the range of 1-2 pages, 5000 characters) is submitted to the delivery room in the information system. The seminar ends with a group evaluation - a colloquium. Students register for the term colloquium in the information system. A student who submitted a video interpretation provided feedback and submitted a self-reflection registers for the colloquium.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 6 hodin.
Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2017, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019, Spring 2020, autumn 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024.
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