Thursday, September 29, 2016

Perceptions of communication.

With evaluating myself and the way I communicate in comparison to how others evaluate me it came out quite the same.  I consider myself to be a very active communicator and listener,  I allow the other person or people to be heard before giving my own opinion on a topic.  Sometimes it may be hard to do, but I make it an effort to keep good communication and keep it all level.  I haven't always been that way it has taken some practice over the years and I may need some work in terms of facial expressions that I may have because  I do show a lot of emotion in my face more than with my words.
This week I learned from the resources and the mostly the activity of profiling the person and their characteristics.  I learned that as people we often make a lot of our assumptions on others  based on their physical attributes.  A lot of times we do this because its similar to someone we have seen before and we place people in the same group because it is something that is familiar to us.

Monday, September 19, 2016

Communicating with different cultures.

  • Do you find yourself communicating differently with people from different groups and cultures?
I do find myself communicating with different cultures in ways that they understand and how they are used to communicating, this is something that I have taught myself to do and it makes it easier when talking to people.  I want to be able to relate to them and understand them in every way especially when it is people I work with and when it comes to children it can help with my teaching and them learning from me.  
  • If yes, in what ways do you communicate differently?
My speech and the words I use are what makes my communication different when dealing with people of different cultures. Sometimes I will speak slower and enunciate more with people. I try to match my communication with that of the person i am communicating with so that it makes it easier for me and for them as well.    

Sunday, September 11, 2016

Verbal and Non verbal communication

I chose a scene from a movie called there's something about Mary. The scene is between Mary and Ben Stiller's character.  While watching the scene without sound, I could tell that the two knew each other and Ben had some sort of feelings for Mary, They are both happy in the scene and been is kind of nervous that is what I am reading from his facial expressions.  They may just be having a casual conversation, but Mary looks like she is flirting or maybe that is just her personality because she is smiling and laughing a lot and Ben seems to be listening and admiring her very well, he doesn't seem as comfortable as she does.  

I watched the same scene with sound and for the most part I was right, In the scene they are talking about school and different things, they know each other but have never had a relationship prior to speaking, he didn't even know mary knew his name.  He was really nervous and she said yes to going to prom with him, he was really nervous like I previously thought and he really liked Mary.  Based on the assumptions I made on the scene in the movie a lot of the characters facial and body behaviors made it easy to interpret what was going on in the scene without sound.  If i were watching something that I know really well I would have nailed it to a T.  

While watching this I realized how much physical communication can be and how you can understand and interpret people based on their physical and facial expressions and not only the words that they are saying.  Sometimes their body movement and face say a whole lot more than just the words alone and that is important to look at when communicating.  

Sunday, September 4, 2016

Effective Communicator

One person that I look up to who was a very effective communicator was my oldest sister. She is part owner and supervisor of a daycare facility in Lansing, IL where I first began teaching when I lived in Chicago.  She has a very understanding and caring demeanor about her no matter who she comes into contact with, she knows how to express her opinion and is able to be able to understand and be open to the opinions of other whether it is family or young children. I know that all of the parents loved her and would always come to talk to her about any and everything because of her great communication and personality.  She has always been that way and I would love to take that into my own career, with being patient and just overall open so that children and parents are not afraid to come to me and talk to me when they need to.  I can truly connect in that way and create great bonds that will last.