Teacher Communication

Ken W. White has thirty-five years of community college and university teaching experience in the areas of alternative education, communication, instructional development and teacher training. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Washington and specializes in interpersonal, online and instructional communication.

• PrefacePART I: Teaching and Relational CommunicationChapter 1: Teacher CommunicationChapter 2: Relational CommunicationChapter 3: Communication and ChoiceChapter 4: Teacher Communication CompetencePART II: Teaching and Organizational CommunicationChapter 5: Effective Learning RelationshipsChapter 6: Communicating with ParentsChapter 7: Communicating with the School PrincipalChapter 8: Communicating and ConflictPART III: Teaching and Classroom CommunicationChapter 9: Groups and Team CommunicationChapter 10: Effective PresentationsChapter 11: Instructional DiscussionsChapter 12: Online CommunicationAbout the AuthorBibliographyIndex

Teacher Communication provides a comprehensive and practical overview of many of the communication challenges that K-12 classroom teachers confront. Ken White's extensive experience and his solid grounding in communication concepts and skills are evident throughout the book. White's emphasis on the ongoing, emergent, people-making, never-the-same ("relational") features of communication enrich his advice about, for example, lesson plan implementation, parent conferences, working with one's Principal, and teaching online. His conceptual anchors in philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer and other classic authors and studies solidly ground this work. Teacher Education students will be well-served by this book.