Communicator

As a communicator, I feel that you have to talk to others to get the information needed or just to get to know someone. When I was younger, I didn’t understand communication because I was shy and didn’t want to talk to others. I grew out of that quick because I never got attention from anyone. I was the smartest in my Pre-Calculus class and the teacher would always call everyone but me to answer questions out loud. I went home talk to my mom about it and we had a conference. The teacher told my mom she never calls on me because I never talks and acts as if I’m shy and doesn’t want to be bother so she didn’t bother me. One day she pulled me to the side and told me these exact words. People don’t read minds you have to communicate with ones so they can know what’s going on. She said communication isn’t hard it’s just verbally talking. After that talk it was time to begin communicating with friends, teachers etc. When I begin communicating I didn’t stop. Now that I have that experience under my belt my mom says I don’t know how to shut up now. Something that surprised me the most was all the attention I begin getting when I start communicating with other.

Communicating with others

When communicating with others from different backgrounds I do find myself communicating differently. When I’m talking with my parents of course I’m going to keep it professional and be intelligent at all times. Your presentation carry’s you a long way. When at home with friends and family, I may communicate using slang works and approaching conversations totally different.

Communication with Television

My son was watching YouTube on his iPad and I asked him could we watch it together. He replies yes mama. I asked what were we watching and he said play-dough its cool. I asked him can we turn the volume down because I’m doing a homework assignment he said yes. We sat on the couch and watch the video with the volume off. The lady and gentleman in the video was moving the play dough around and moving their hands. Of course they were talking but the volume was off. I thought to myself they giving the instructions on how to create different things with play dough. Alter monitoring without the volume, my son turned the volume up. The first thing we heard was the lady giving instructions how to make cartoon characters out of play-dough and showing different tricks switch their hand. As they continue to show tricks they will name each trick they are showing.. Before listening to them I thought they was just playing around in the play-dough and talking about when colors mixed what color you get? But my assumption was totally wrong and off. 

Communicating

Someone that I would like to discuss fir this blog is my Supervisor. The reason I chose her is because she’s a great leader, positive role, model and mentor. Moving down south I knew no one here. My supervisor was a teacher my first two years of teaching. She modeled great communication skills with her students as well as her parents. She has a demanding tone but her parents took that as she mean busy. There was always a clear line of communication with her and families. If she needed to go t a home to communicate with families she did that. She always said Mrs. Allen it’s not what you say it’s how you say it and that is true. Working with children and families we have to be mindful of how we say things. Everyone thinks differently so I make sure that my words are always professional and that my tons of voice is appropriate for parents as well as children. My supervisor inspired me to communicate with parents and gain a relationship with them.