Multifaceted Impact of Teachers’ Communication Skill on Students’ Learning and Development

Abstract

This article reflects the insights and experiences on the role of teacher’s communication skill on child’s learning and development as acquired over teaching for more than a decade and being a student from pre-primary grade to master degree. It is intended to ignite thought among teacher colleagues to reflect and consider the essentiality of positive and effective communication skills for teachers, the impact on children’s learning and developmental process and influence it makes on the life of learners. Having this idea teachers will be encouraged to work on developing this effective communication skills as their professional requisite to better communicate with their learners and expand their delivery skills. The teacher training institutions can work to incorporate courses for enhancing communication skills for trainee teachers and relevant stakeholders can develop and provide professional development programs to in-service teachers on this inevitable soft skill. This paper particularly looks at the three modes of communication that teacher uses in the classroom and the five dimensions.