Assertiveness

In relation to interviews, we have also studied three different kinds of communication:  aggressive, assertive, inhibit.

Aggressive communication consists on express your own right, feelings, needs and opinions in a freely way without taking into account others opinions.

On contrary, you have the inhibit communication which is considered  a passive communication where you do not express your feelings or opinions, in order to avoid conflict. You try to pleased others.

 Finally, the last one: the assertive, which is very important to live in a society. It is considered a combination of high self- stem  (feel confident with yourself), and having clear arguments in order to support your opinion. You cannot be aggressive defending your opinions.

Here there are several rules to be assertive:

1.    Respect myself

2.    Recognize my own needs

3.    Make clear my statements how I feel

4.    Allow myself to make mistakes

5.    Change my mind

6.    Ask for thinking time

7.    Allow myself to enjoy my successes

8.    Ask for what I want

9.    Recognize that I am not responsible for the behaviour of others

10. Respect others.

Parents andTeacher Meeting

In order to learn how to run out a  teacher and parents meeting  we watched a video of  an interview between  a teacher and a mother. From this video, I will point out several characteristics that I’ve considered important.

  First at all, they started with a good welcome as to create a comfortable and positive environment. Then, you could observe the good communication that were established along the meeting,  which involves respect the turns and listen each other.  Besides, the teacher exposed several ideas about the child development supported by arguments based on tests and  material. Also, she gave some suggestions about how to deal with the child problems. Finally, they got to an agreement in order to meet again.

 In general terms, the interview seems organized, positive and completed.

 After the interview we heard some criticism from a counselor about how the interview was carried out. She standed out  the idea of the previous organization (schedule, timing and material) of the meeting .The place of the interview must be comfortable and confidential. She recommended not to use a technical language; to set mutual goals and to encourage parents to take some notes if they consider necessary. Moreover, she concluded saying that it is important to make a reflexion after the meeting in order to self-evaluate yourself and the interview.

 Here,  I  show a video about  a funny  parents teacher meeting. Who knows what can happen in this kind of meetings?