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"When being late for class..." "When I am not listened to during a lecture..."
"When a student skips a class..."
And then we continue talking about our psychological state: "...I feel sorry",
"...I can't gather my thoughts", "...I can't work" and so on.
The "I-message" technique means that you also have the right to your feelings,
to be respected and to express your emotional state:
"I know I shouldn't react this way, but I can't help it"
or "Nobody listens to me in the classroom, and I feel like leaving it",
or "It's hard to work in a classroom that is completely unprepared for the lesson
because it's a waste of time."
Such a description of objective events and your psychological state gives you
the opportunity to see your behavior, your attitude towards the teacher from a
different perspective. Perhaps the person didn't realize how their actions affected
others?
Again, it's important to note that the sentence of address does not accuse the
person you are talking to but merely states the behavior and its impact on your well-
being.
A positive aspect of the "I-message" is that the teacher talks about their
negative feelings without using offensive language towards others, but allows
students to better understand and sympathize with them, enabling them to decide how
to act independently.
An obstacle to the teacher's understanding of the student can be the
absolutization of role positions, manifested in didactic centrism, where grades come
first rather than the student's personality and their individual problems. It's also
important to consider the student's attitude towards pedagogical evaluations. Is
"unsatisfactory" for them equivalent to "not studying enough, having gaps in
knowledge, and therefore needing to pay more attention to this subject," or is the
grade merely a goal? In the latter case, the emotional reaction to the pedagogical
evaluation is transferred onto the teacher's personality.
Another example is when the teacher is focused on professional activity, while
the student is focused on obtaining a diploma at any cost. That's why it is not
pedagogically appropriate to sympathize with the student when they behave
demonstratively and arrogantly, demanding a positive evaluation despite having no
knowledge of the subject matter.
Position 2: Recognizing the student as an individual. This is shown in the
teacher's belief in the student's intellect, their positive inclination to unfold their
potential abilities and self-development.
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However, not allowing the degradation of human dignity, neither one's own
nor the dignity of the student (pointing it out to them) is essential. Unfortunately,
some students do not feel when their dignity is undermined in situations where it
should be respected. These students may have been accustomed to authoritarian
forms of pedagogical communication that diminish human dignity. As a result, they
themselves may not realize that their behavior shows disrespect towards the
instructor's personhood and inappropriate attitude towards them.
What are the reasons for these discrepancies in the positions of students and
teachers regarding personal interaction between them? One reason can be found by
analyzing the nature of the difficulties experienced by students and teachers in their
interactions. The results of the research conducted by L.G. Podolyak and V.I.
Yurchenko show that only 39% of teachers realize the difficulties in their
relationships with students, and of these, 64% "blame" the students solely for these
difficulties ("I am offended by students' unwillingness to learn," "I encounter
indifference and lack of manners from students," "Difficulties arise from their
insincerity and closedness," and so on). Only 14% of the surveyed teachers
understand relationships as a two-way process and associate difficulties with both
subjects of interaction ("We don't always understand each other," "Divergence in
views and moral-ethical norms of behavior between teachers and students," "You
demand from students what you don't like yourself," and so on).
At the same time, the research found that only 7% of students do not encounter
any difficulties in their relationships. The content and nature of the difficulties are as
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Let's name the main difficulties that novice teachers encounter in professional-
pedagogical communication with students:
Distorted perceptions of the teacher (or student): "You're always late," "As
always, you're unprepared," "You make too many mistakes," and so on.
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Negative forms of consolation: "Don't take offense, but I have to warn you..."
Direct role confrontation: "You're not a teacher yet, so listen to what I say..."
Differences in assessments and their criteria (teacher: "I give you a 'fail',"
student: "But I've read everything, I prepared...").
The professional and pedagogical position of the teacher obliges them to take
responsibility for resolving problematic situations, bringing them to a logical
conclusion. However, it should never be taken to the point of confrontation or the
destruction of pedagogical interaction, to a conflict. Problems in pedagogical
interaction should not have a negative impact on the pedagogical process.
the student and vice versa. An example of this can be a teacher's judgment: "As
always, unprepared. Mistakes in your work again," and from the student's side,
regular lateness, failure to complete assignments, etc.
Semantic barrier: the same phenomenon (word, phrase, event) has different
meanings for different people.
Barrier of misunderstanding: caused by language errors and unclear speech,
not taking into account the preparedness of the audience. To prevent this barrier, it is
necessary to speak simply and clearly structure the information. To avoid the logical
barrier of misunderstanding, one needs to imagine the interlocutor's position and
clearly justify their thoughts.
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• Moral barrier - differences in social norms and rules that are internalized by
different people; the age-old "generation gap" in the disapproval of each other's
behavior and communication styles, interests, fashion, and so on. For example, a
teacher might remark during a conversation with students, "We were different during
our student years!" (implying that they were better, which is not always true).
• Emotional barrier - differences in emotional states between the teacher and students,
especially during exams and assessments, lack of empathy towards each other, as
well as a lack of composure and logical arguments in situations of strong emotional
arousal.
capable of organizing facts: what? who? where? when? how? why? To learn to ask
timely and meaningful questions is to develop one's intellect.
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between Teachers and Students: Teaching and Methodological Manual. Kyiv:
MP Dragomanov National Pedagogical University, 2002. 114 p.
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